United States v. Lester Giles Panter

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• holding that 10 a justification instruction was required where the defendant allegedly took possession of a weapon 11 as a convicted murderer threatened to kill him, stabbed him with a pocket knife, and then pinned him 12 to the floor
• adding that “[t]his conclusion is unassailable; statutes rarely enumerate the defenses to the crimes they describe”
• discussing whether “necessity” or “self-defense” is the appropriate label for a defense to a federal felon-in-possession charge
• imminence and specificity requirements satisfied when defendant stabbed in the abdomen three times with a pocketknife
• defendant was tending bar; he was attacked and stabbed; when he fell to the floor, he reached for a club beneath the bar but instead found waitress’s gun
• defendant, who while pinned to floor after being stabbed in stomach reached 1 In Bonner v. City of Prichard, 661 F.2d 1206, 1209 (11th Cir. 1981) (en banc

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