People v. Suazo

How courts have described this case

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

• collecting definitions of “im minent” — “near at hand, impending[,] or on the point of hap pening”; “likely to happen without delay”; and “menacingly n ear”
• “The plain language of the assault on the elderly statute convinces us that the offense was meant to be a strict liability offense.”
• even where there is evidence of provocation, a heat of passion instruction is not warranted where an adequate “cooling off” period has passed
• a division of this court used the definition of “imminent” used in choice of evils jury instructions to evaluate whether the defendant was entitled to a self-defense jury instruction
• the victim physically attacked a close relative

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).