People v. Conyer

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that there is generally a common-law duty to retreat “unless attacked inside one’s own home, or subjected to a sudden, fierce, and violent attack -7- . . . .”
• discussing common law self-defense and stating that, “[g]enerally, the use of deadly force in self-defense is justified if a person ‘honestly and reasonably believes that his life is in imminent danger . . . .”
• \Defendant was sentenced to serve consecutive prison terms of 30 to 120 months ....\
• “Defendant was sentenced to serve consecutive prison terms of 30 to 120 months ....”
• “[A] statute is presumed to operate prospectively unless [a] contrary intent is clearly manifested.”
• statute altered the -9- common law of self-defense concerning duty to retreat and therefore created a substantive right; “Thus, it does not apply retroactively absent an indication that such was the intention of the Legislature in passing the statute.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).