State v. Knoll

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing that “forcing] the prosecution to prove a negative” is “a burden the law does not often impose”
• stating that \[albsence of self-defense is not an element of a homicide offense\
• \[Slelf-defense is a justification for killing and a defense to prosecution.\ (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)
• although defendant had disarmed victim before assault, court found there was enough evidence in record to submit self-defense instruction
• \Absence of self-defense is not an element of a homicide offense.\
• “[A] defendant may have to assume the burden of producing some evidence of self- defense if there is no evidence in the prosecution’s case that would provide some kind of evidentiary foundation for a claim of self- defense.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).