United States v. Charles E. Haynes

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming denial of self-defense instruction for preemptive strike, in part because “‘later’ and ‘imminent’ are opposites”
• rejecting claim of self-defense premised in part on fear of being labeled a snitch
• motion in limine may be used to prevent introduction of evidence Cline next challenges the district court’s grant of the supporting a defense whose elements cannot be established
• “Under the law of the jungle a good offense may be the best defense. But although prisons are nasty places, they are not jungles and it is the law of the United States rather than Hobbes’ states of nature that regulates inmates’ conduct.”
• “Under the law of the jungle a good offense may be the best defense. But although prisons are nasty places, they are not jungles and it is the law of the United States rather than Hobbes’ states of nature that regulates inmates’ conduct.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).