People v. Wilkinson

Defendant was convicted, after jury trial, of aggravated battery.Jury was free to conclude that victim's testimony,  that Defendant struck him repeatedly in the head with a hammer while he was on top of him and he was trying to get away, was more credible than Defendant's testimony. Jury could rationally conclude that any belief Defendant held that those hammer strikes were necessary to protect himself was unreasonable.(LYTTON, concurring; McDADE, dissenting.)