Mungin v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• a prison inmate may temporarily possess a weapon taken from a would-be aggressor when it is used to defend against the imminent peril of death or serious bodily injury
• held that self-defense may be a viable defense to a charge under Section 944.47 where the inmates’s temporary possession of a weapon was for purposes of self-defense
• defense variously referred to as self-defense, necessity, and duress

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Baca
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1992-08-31· cited 45×
• United States v. Steven Holt
  Fourth Circuit· 1996-03-15· cited 34×
• State v. Crawford
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1987-03-06· cited 34×
• Marrero v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-12-15· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Lindsey
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-03-05· cited 18×
• Ex Parte Taylor
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1993-09-10· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Valcarel
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-06-12· cited 10×
• State v. Vandiver
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1988-09-20· cited 5×
• Fuller v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2015-12-18· cited 4×
• Ambrister v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-12-19· cited 3×
• State v. Castrillo
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1991-04-25· cited 2×
• Johnson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1986-09-25· cited 1×
• Floyd v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-10-28· cited 1×
• United States v. Holt
  Fourth Circuit· 1996-03-15

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Wright v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-12-16· cited 15×
• Jones v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1975-12-23· cited 11×
• Stevens v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-03-25· cited 9×
• Thorpe v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1979-11-14· cited 8×
• Carter v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1975-05-20· cited 7×
• Coleman v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1977-05-06· cited 6×
• Dardy v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1975-12-23· cited 4×
• State v. Morbeck
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1979-01-15· cited 3×
• McKinney v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-03-18· cited 3×
• Moyers v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-05-28· cited 2×
• Nickerson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-07-28· cited 2×
• State v. Moyers
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-11-25· cited 1×