State v. Lubong

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the defendant's conduct constituted deadly force, where the testimony was that the defendant charged at an attacker with a knife
• instructing that “[t]he factfinder is required to place itself in the shoes of the defendant, determine the point of view which the defendant had at the time of the incident, and view the conduct of the victim with all its pertinent sidelights as the defendant was warranted in viewing it.”
• “The first prong is subjective; it requires a determination of whether the defendant had the requisite belief that deadly force was necessary[.]”
• \The first prong is subjective; it requires a determination of whether the defendant had the requisite belief that deadly force was necessary[.]\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).