verbal-threat

Case	Title	Lower Court	Docketed	Status	Flags	Tags	Question Presented
22-7687	James Jones v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-06-01	Denied	IFP	constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion retroactive-application self-defense statutory-interpretation verbal-threat	Whether a defendant may assert self-defense against a verbal threat even if the victim did not act on the threat