People v. Fuller

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that section 18-1-704, C.R.S. 2024, “permits a person to defend himself when he reasonably believes that unreasonable or excessive force . . . is being used by law enforcement officers or that its use is imminent”
• “It is for the jury and not for the court to determine the truth of the defendant’s theory.”
• the defendant wasn’t entitled to a self-defense instruction on a criminal mischief charge for kicking out a police car window because at that point the defendant was “arrested, handcuffed and placed in the back seat of the car”
• unreasonable or excessive force may “aecompanfy] either lawful or unlawful arrests”
• self-defense may be an affirmative defense to resisting arrest

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

22 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• People v. Stewart
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2002-09-09· cited 1,181×
• People v. Garcia
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2001-06-25· cited 840×
• People v. Tenneson
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1990-04-02· cited 74×
• Lybarger v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1991-03-18· cited 69×
• People v. Nunez
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1992-11-09· cited 59×
• Oien v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1990-08-17· cited 47×
• People v. Suazo
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1993-11-18· cited 39×
• People v. Hill
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1997-03-17· cited 24×
• v. Coahran
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2019-01-24· cited 23×
• People v. in the Interest of T.R.
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1993-01-28· cited 19×
• People v. Mossmann
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2000-03-16· cited 18×
• People v. Degreat
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2018-10-15· cited 18×
• People v. Rodriguez
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1994-04-07· cited 17×
• People v. Bachofer
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2008-01-24· cited 16×
• People v. Barrus
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2010-03-04· cited 11×
• People v. Grenier
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2008-03-06· cited 11×
• People v. DeGreat
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2015-07-30· cited 9×
• People v. Fishback
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1992-05-11· cited 8×
• People v. Chirico
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2012-02-02· cited 6×
• People v. Trujillo
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2003-01-21· cited 4×