People v. Belpedio

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that the use of self-defense must, among other things, be reasonable and necessary and not for the purpose of retaliation
• recognizing that the use of self-defense must, among other things, be reasonable and necessary and not for the purpose of retaliation
• indicating that if a person responds to a confrontation with such excessive force that he is no longer acting in self-defense but in retaliation, the excessive use of force makes that person the aggressor
• “If one responds to a confrontation with such excessive force that one is no longer acting in self-defense but in retaliation, the excessive use of force renders one the protagonist.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).