McKinnon v. Kalwar

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that the “[d]efendant’s decision to arm herself and leave the vehicle, while perhaps unwise, was not, in and of itself, evidence that she brought on the difficulty, ‘aggressively and willingly’ entered the fight, or intended to continue the altercation”
• concluding that the “[d]efendant’s decision to arm herself and leave the vehicle, while perhaps unwise, was not, in and of itself, evidence that she brought on the difficulty, ‘aggressively and willingly’ entered the fight, or intended to continue the altercation”
• holding that evidence presented at trial was insufficient to support the instruction that the defendant would lose the benefit of self-defense if she were the aggressor where she fled an altercation with the victim, then armed herself and left a place of relative safety (a vehicle
• “[W]e hold that the evidence presented at trial was insufficient to support the [aggressor] instruction . . . .”
• decision to arm herself did not make defendant aggressor

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).