Is it possible you could win a murder case on self defense if you stab the person over a 150 times?

Answer 1

This question made me laugh (I don't know if that was your intention).

You would have to prove insanity for someone to go knife crazy like that in order to beat the rap.

Answer 2

Self defense applies to protecting yourself or another from serious imminent bodily harm. After the first few stabs, it could be tough to convince a jury the rest of the stabs were justified. But who knows, with a good defense fund, some high profile attorneys, anything could happen.

Answer 3

Sounds like the plea here should be temporary insanity. Enter that and I suppose you could get away with it. Of course the plot that goaded you to stab someone 150 times will have a lot to do with it.

Answer 4

It probably depends on the senario surroinding the inncident. I mean, self defense is like getting the person off of you and protecting yourself. 150 times is way to exsessive to be self defense, more like your rage took over and you were temporarily insane?

Ps. Is this an actual worry of yours for some reason?

Answer 5

Probably not. Self defense is limited to stopping or neutralizeing the threat. any more than 2 or 3 is going to be too many times and is no longer going to be self defense.

Answer 6

Yeah, Just say the guy was like super human or something. Can you imagine stabbing someone 150 times before they finally quit attacking you? The jury will nod sympathetically and let you go.

Answer 7

the only way the self defense defense would work is if you used equal force in your own defense than was bein used to attack you.

in other words, no... by stabbing someone 150 times you cannot use self defense because that is excessive force than was used on you.

By the way, for whoever gave me the thumbs down, educate yourself. That is the legal definition of self defense put in simple terms.. not something i pulled out of my butthole.

"However, a person must use no more force than appears reasonably necessary in the circumstances" Stabbing someone 150 times is not REASONABLE.

Answer 8

Most likely not. Self defense usually means u hurt them bad enough to get away only or if u managed to kill them it was like 1 bullet or 1 stabbing.

Answer 9

In the legal systems of most of the world such lunacy would never be, but here in the USA which has the most distorted, corrupt and lunatic legal system in the world, such a situation as you describe is not only possible, but I'm aware through my work with the ACLU as a fact-finder and investigator (but not attorney) of cases like the one you described above and cases that would sicken you, make you want to rip your hair out, that were actually placed before the courts in all seriousness. There is no legal system on Earth, more corrupt, more lunatic than here in the USA. It would not surprise me at all of a person being acquited in a murder case who stabbed the "assailant" 150 times.

In fact, the courts and judges seem to have their heads in law books, but not reality. Often in an assualt case the judge simply looks at the two who stand before him. Person A stands six foot one and weighs 220 lbs. Person B who stands accused of assualt stands 5 foot seven and weighs 160 pounds. Finding of the court is predictable: Not Guilty.
In the Judges warped view of reality, a smaller man would never assualt or rob a larger man (with or without a weapon?) so his judgement is predictable from the get go regardless of evidence that the smaller of the two is a known criminal and junkie. Judges accept as evidence virtually anything they wish, even tho' supposedly concealed by courtroom traditions. Hearsay is inadmissible as evidence, but that never stopped it from being used! Then there's all kinds of privaleged communications like Priest to parishioner, or Attorney/Client. Presumably, only physical evidence obtained under a very specific warrant would be admissible. The broadened powers of the fascist police state we live in now allow them to broadly search and seize almost anything and everything under the most unlikely of pretenses and judges simply rubber stamp warrants without even looking at them. Great legal system we have. Keep asking questions like that, we need them to be asked!

Answer 10

Doubt it. Its like shooting someone in a a crime of passion and then reloading and continuing to fire. 150 times is way too many to get off on self defense.

Answer 11

I think after the first or second time it is no longer considered self defense. 150 is way too excessive.