Shapiro v. Wilk

How courts have described this case

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• defendant’s statement that the victim threatened him with a kitchen knife was held insufficient to require a justification charge
• the defendant’s single statement that “the complainant came after defendant . . . with a kitchen knife” “provide[d] no basis for determining [that the] defendant reasonably believed that he was in imminent danger” (cleaned up)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).