Recently the Supreme Court of North Carolina addressed the issue of the availability of the imperfect right of self-defense in homicide cases. 1 Legal commentators throughout the years have distinguished between a privilege which is perfect and one which is imperfectRichard Charles Blanks...
This proposal contributes not only to a defense of the MLV, and similar views, by accounting for an insight that is in tension with it but the argument for the imperfect duty itself also makes a novel contribution to the literature on the deontic status of forgiveness or letting go of ...
The test has five factors designed to give ordinary jurors insight into martial arts training so they can fairly decide self-defense cases for those with specialized combat skills. Passing the test results in "martial sufficiency," a heightened standard of self-defense in which only a perfect ...
The test has five factors designed to give ordinary jurors insight into martial arts training so they can fairly decide self-defense cases involving combatants with specialized skills. Passing the test results in "martial sufficiency," a heightened standard of self-defense in which only a perfect ...