United States v. James E. Wagner

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that victim's alleged attempt to grab a hot water pitcher did not justify defendant's pulling a knife after all danger had passed
• explaining that the \customary procedure in this Circuit for challenging the effectiveness of defense counsel” is to go through a collateral proceeding because \usually such a claim cannot be advanced without the development of facts outside the original record”
• explaining that the \customary procedure in this Circuit for challenging the effectiveness of defense counsel” is to go through a collateral proceeding because \usually such a claim cannot be advanced without the development of facts outside the original record”
• not plain error to fail to give involuntary manslaughter instruction where the evidence is inconsistent with the crime, as defendant pulled own knife and chased other inmate, stabbing him to death
• defendant was the aggressor when the victim was unarmed and in retreat

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).