Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130705:19:42:00
Thompson 5527224. that's an aggravated battery case where he tried to stop a fight, was attacked. defendant backed up, brandished a gun. aggressor continued to approach. defendant shot him. and that was where the court reversed the conviction on that, suggesting that the judgment of acquittal should have been grant ed. the hernandez/ramos case, again cited in jenkins, gives some good insight into a similar fact scenario. in that case, evidence was there that the defendant took some effort to ward off the attack or end it without violence. the state's witnesses in that case uniformly identified...
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