State v. Melendez

How courts have described this case

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

• “Self-defense is a belief by a reasonable [person] in the necessity to save himself [or herself] from death or great bodily harm.”
• specifically holding that evidence of the reputation of the victim is admissible as probative evidence of “ ‘an essential element of ... [self-] defense’ ”
• “[Provocation can be any action, conduct or circumstances which arouse anger, rage, fear, sudden resentment, terror or other extreme emotions.”
• tendered evidence of victim’s reputation for violence was relevant to defendant’s claims that occupants of a car were aggressors and that he had reasonable apprehensions for his life and safety
• tendered evidence of victim's reputation for violence was relevant to defendant's claims that occupants of a car were aggressors and that he had reasonable apprehensions for his life and safety

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Coffin
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1999-10-06· cited 171×
• State v. Balderama
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2004-03-01· cited 85×
• State v. Abeyta
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1995-07-20· cited 71×
• State v. Volpato
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1985-02-18· cited 47×
• State v. Gallegos
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1986-06-04· cited 45×
• State v. Baca
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1992-08-31· cited 45×
• State v. Garcia
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2005-11-29· cited 43×
• State v. Duncan
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1990-05-31· cited 17×
• State v. Bolaski
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2014-04-25· cited 14×
• State v. Salgado
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1991-09-26· cited 13×
• Klaes v. Scholl
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1985-10-16· cited 13×
• State v. Velasquez
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1982-10-12· cited 11×
• State v. Hobbs
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2022-07-21· cited 5×
• State v. Gibbins
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1990-02-06· cited 4×
• State v. Fox
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2016-12-20· cited 1×