People v. Beasley

How courts have described this case

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

• If there are multiple participants in a fight, “the instruction must necessarily refer to the use of unlawful force by any of the defendant’s opponents.”
• “Although defendant may have participated in the exchange of insults between the cars, insults alone do not make one the initial aggressor.”
• insults alone do not make one the initial aggressor so as to preclude self-defense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Castillo v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2018-06-25· cited 1,442×
• v. Roberts-Bicking
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2021-02-11· cited 1,408×
• People v. Silva
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1999-05-27· cited 208×
• People v. Roadcap
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2003-02-13· cited 185×
• State v. Riley
  Washington Supreme Court· 1999-05-13· cited 162×
• People v. Manzanares
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1996-11-29· cited 41×
• Hill v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2004-08-19· cited 33×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• People v. Deadmond
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1984-05-21· cited 296×
• People v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1984-01-09· cited 230×
• People v. Dillon
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1982-12-20· cited 98×
• People v. Alexander
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1983-05-09· cited 54×
• State v. Graham
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1973-05-09· cited 29×
• People v. Berry
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1985-03-21· cited 17×
• People v. Cuevas
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1987-05-28· cited 13×
• Colorado Farm Bur. Mut. Ins. Co. v. WEST AMER. INS. CO.
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1975-03-11· cited 10×
• Goldblatt v. Chase
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1950-03-06· cited 7×