State v. Ventre

How courts have described this case

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• holding that evidence of a victim’s intoxication should have been admitted to establish that the victim “may well have been disinhibited by intoxication and more likely to have engaged in aggressive conduct toward defendant”
• allowing specific instances of conduct when “state of mind and the reasonableness of [defendant’s] fear were matters of key importance”
• finding defendant’s heat-of-passion argument colorable because four assailants allegedly attacked and pummeled the defendant before he used the gun
• “Our cases have held that when self-defense is asserted, a defendant has a right to present * * * reputation evidence * * *.”
• evidence of 8 For the current opinion, go to https://www.lexisnexis.com/clients/wareports/. State v. Jennings (Justin Nicholas), No. 99337-8 (Gordon McCloud, J., concurring in part/dissenting in part
• evidence presented warranted an instruction on heat-of-passion manslaughter as well as self-defense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).