People v. Morris

How courts have described this case

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• stating that if a defendant’s actions were justified as self-defense, he would not be criminally liable for injuries to an innocent third party, unless the injury to the bystander was caused by the defendant’s reckless or negligent conduct
• anticipatory arming for self defense is relevant to negating charge of possession for unlawful purpose
• defendant, in justified exercise of self-defense, escapes criminal liability for unintended injury to bystander, unless injuries to bystander were caused by defendant's negligence or recklessness

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Pons
  New York Court of Appeals· 1986-10-23· cited 169×
• State v. Harmon
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1986-10-14· cited 97×
• State v. Betts
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2022-07-29· cited 69×
• Commonwealth v. Fowlin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-04-23· cited 40×
• People v. Lauderdale
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2002-06-17· cited 25×
• Holloman v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 2002-07-31· cited 18×
• State v. Kelly
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1990-04-04· cited 17×
• People v. Lewis
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1986-03-11· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Fowlin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-04-12· cited 12×
• Malaska v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2014-02-28· cited 6×
• People v. Morgan
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2002-01-28· cited 5×
• Jackson v. Edwards
  E.D. New York· 2003-09-25· cited 4×
• People v. White
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1990-12-21· cited 3×
• People v. Jones
  New York Supreme Court· 2004-07-09· cited 3×
• People v. Ramos
  Criminal Court of the City of New York· 2002-10-15· cited 3×
• People v. Sierra
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1996-09-27· cited 2×
• State v. Joey J. Fowler and Jamil L. Hearns (080880) (Union County and Statewide)
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2019-07-30
• People v. Jones
  New York Supreme Court, Bronx County· 2004-07-09
• Commonwealth v. Kenneth Jose Santana-Rodriguez
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2025-10-14

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• People v. Tucker
  New York Court of Appeals· 1981-12-22· cited 550×
• People v. Watts
  New York Court of Appeals· 1982-11-16· cited 365×
• People v. Padgett
  New York Court of Appeals· 1983-10-25· cited 196×
• People v. Steele
  New York Court of Appeals· 1970-05-28· cited 175×
• People v. Jackson
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1973-12-18· cited 154×
• People v. Stahl
  New York Court of Appeals· 1981-06-11· cited 117×
• People v. Adams
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1972-12-21· cited 14×
• People v. Parks
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1977-08-01· cited 11×
• People v. Bruckman
  New York Court of Appeals· 1979-03-29· cited 10×