An attorney for Andrew Lester maintains the 84-year-old could be acquitted at trial, saying “under the (self-defense) law, Mr. Lester didn’t need to wait to be attacked by a stranger in the dark” to shoot.
It will be more than a year until Andrew Lester, 84, stands trial in the shooting of then-16-year-old Ralph Yarl, who he is charged with shooting twice after the student
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Ralph Yarl, a Black teenager, testified in court on Thursday about being shot on a man’s doorstep. A judge ruled that the charges against the white homeowner could proceed.