People v. Ferguson

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the trial court’s instructional error wasn’t harmless because the erroneous instruction permitted the ju ry “to hold [t he] defendant to a higher standard in establishing self-defense than is required by law”
• “If the force used by the defendant does not cause death, by definition it cannot be deadly physical force.”
• prejudicial error to allow jury to consider deadly physical force self-defense principles when, because the victim did not die, “deadly physical force” had not been used
• An error in the self-defense instruction is not harmless where “we simply cannot determine the manner in which the jury applied the self-defense instruction, if at all.”
• discussing admissibility of victim’s specific acts of violence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Baird
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2002-11-07· cited 221×
• Colorado v. Segovia
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2008-11-24· cited 109×
• Commonwealth v. Adjutant
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2005-03-14· cited 78×
• People v. Opana
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2017-05-30· cited 26×
• People v. Vasquez
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2006-06-29· cited 18×
• People v. Jones
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2018-08-09· cited 12×
• People v. Tardif
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2017-11-02

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• People v. Sprouse
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1999-06-14· cited 1,564×
• People v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1984-01-09· cited 230×
• People v. Rubanowitz
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1984-09-04· cited 84×
• People v. Banks
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2000-09-18· cited 66×
• People v. Ross
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1987-08-20· cited 8×
• People v. Farbes
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1998-09-03· cited 4×