AJ 014 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: List Of Nicknames Of Presidents Of The United States, Jury Instructions, W. M. Keck Observatory

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Administration of Justice (AJ)
• Course: AJ 014
• Professor: green

Document Summary

State v. norman (supreme court of nc, 1989) Ph: the court of appeals granted a new trial, citing as error the tc"s refusal to submit a possible verdict for acquittal by reason of self defense. The right to self-defense is based on the necessity, real or reasonably apparent, of killing an unlawful aggressor to save oneself from imminent death or gbh at his hands. Our law has recognized that self-preservation under such circumstances springs from a primal impulse and is an inherent right of natural law. Killing another is the most extreme recourse to our inherent right of self-preservation. Can only be justified by the utmost real or apparent necessity brough about by the decedent. Our law of self-defense has required that a establish that she reasonably believed at the time of the killing that she otherwise would have immediately suffered death or gbh.