Rolando Miguel-Gaspar Mateo v. State of Indiana

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• determining that the State rebutted Mateo’s claim of self defense because, among other reasons, Mateo did not communicate his desire to withdraw from combat before continuing to attack the victim
• “[I]f an individual uses more force than is reasonably necessary under the circumstances, his self- defense claim will fail.”
• defendant failed to show that his sentence of twenty years for inflicting great bodily injury upon an unarmed victim was inappropriate given his numerous criminal offenses

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).