State v. Faafiti

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the admission of the preliminary hearing testimony of an unavailable witness did not violate the confrontation clause
• holding that the degree of force to which a person is lawfully entitled to use is “limited by what a reasonable person in the same situation ... would believe to be necessary”
• holding that the degree of force to which a person is lawfully entitled to use is \limited by what a reasonable person in the same situation ... would believe to be necessary\
• holding that “there is no question that a defendant in a criminal case has a fundamental or constitutional right to be confronted with and to cross-examine witnesses against him”
• affirming the jury instruction that required the jury to evaluate the defendant's use of force \seeing what [the defendant] sees and knowing what [the defendant] knows\
• affirming the jury instruction that required the jury to evaluate the defendant’s use of force “seeing what [the defendant] sees and knowing what [the defendant] knows”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).