New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2/27/1996

State v. Bryant

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671 A.2d 1058
288 N.J. Super. 27

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finding no plain error in court's \failing to refer to the justifications of self-defense and defense of others in its instructions on the elements of murder\
\[A] person 'who provokes or initiates an assault cannot escape criminal liability by invoking self-defense . . . .'\ (quoting Rivers, 252 N.J. Super. at 149)
\[T]he defendant may not use [deadly] force if he 'knows that he can avoid the necessity of using such force with complete safety by retreating . . . .'\ (quoting N.J.S.A. 2C:3-4b(2)(b))
\The reasonableness of the defendant's belief is to be determined by the jury using an objective standard of what a reasonable person would have done in defendant's position in light of the circumstances known to defendant at the time the force was used.\

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