State v. Basting

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the district court did not err when it found that the defendant did not act in self-defense in part because it “could have determined that [the defendant] used more force than was necessary”
• listing retreat as an element of self-defense to be disproven by the state
• listing elements of self-defense as the absence of aggression or provocation on the part of the defendant, the defendant’s actual and honest belief of danger of death or great bodily harm, reasonable grounds for that belief, and the absence of a reasonable possibility of retreat
• listing elements for self-defense claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).