unreasonable-belief

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
19-6621 Jaquan Walters v. United States Second Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-circuit criminal-law deadly-force due-process federal-common-law imperfect-self-defense manslaughter murder murder-mitigation self-defense unreasonable-belief voluntary-manslaughter Does "imperfect self-defense," which mitigates murder to voluntary manslaughter where the defendant "intend[ed] to use deadly force in the unreasonabl…