Wayne G. Woods v. Herman Solem, Warden of the South Dakota State Penitentiary & Roger Tellinghuisen, Attorney General of the State of South Dakota

How courts have described this case

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

• indicating that “if [a defendant] is entitled to a self-defense instruction under [state] law, the trial court’s refusal to issue such an instruction violate[s] due process”
• discussing when the refusal to issue a self- defense instruction violates the U.S. Constitution
• “[T]o the extent that [the defendant] is arguing that South Dakota should have adopted a different self-defense doctrine, he misses the essential target.”
• “[T]o the extent that [the defendant] is arguing that South Dakota should have adopted a different self-defense doctrine, he misses the essential target.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).