Person v. Board of Parole

How courts have described this case

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• when defendant claims self-defense, uncommunicated threats by victim are probative of victim’s conduct
• when defendant claims self-defense, uncommunicated threats by victim are probative of victim's conduct
• “evidence that may reasonably be considered admissible and useful to the defense”
• “evidence that may reasonably be considered admissible and useful to the defense”
• evidence of opened penknife in victim’s pocket, together with fact that he had his hand in his pocket as he approached the defendant, was properly admissible as an uncommunicated threat to support self-defense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).