State v. Knotts

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]he defendant may only use non-deadly force where he is threatened only with non-deadly force.”
• the defendant became “the physical aggressor and lost any privilege of self-defense” when the initial aggressor victim retreated to his truck and then into the woods, and the defendant followed the victim and killed him

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).