Watkins v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the accused was entitled to a jury instruction on self-defense, although he was the initial aggressor at the non-deadly level, because the victim was the one who escalated the fight from a non-deadly one to a lethal confrontation
• holding that the accused was entitled to a jury instruction on self-defense, although he was the initial aggressor at the non-deadly level, because the victim was the one who escalated the fight from a non-deadly one to a lethal confrontation
• defendant may claim self-defense, even as initial aggressor, if victim escalated altercation to deadly level

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Dykes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-04-11· cited 140×
• Sims v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-05-30· cited 71×
• Roach v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2000-04-13· cited 33×
• Brown v. Mayor & City Council
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2006-02-24· cited 18×
• Peterson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1994-07-01· cited 11×
• Redcross v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1998-05-04· cited 10×
• State v. McCoy
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2006-05-24· cited 9×
• Forrest v. P & L Real Estate Investment Co.
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2000-10-02· cited 8×
• Thornton v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2005-06-15· cited 4×
• 107oag033
  Maryland Attorney General Reports· 2022-03-02
• Maryland Attorney General Opinion 107OAG033
  Maryland Attorney General Reports· 2022-02-25