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Originally Posted by GGG
That's a self defense argument. If the defense position was I feared for my wife's life therefore I had the gun pointed at him and it went off. We could have a discussion around self defense laws. That isn't what was presented as the defense so on the manslaughter charge it's still he admitted to unlawfully using a weapon and it went off.
I don't see though how hangfire is a defense of manslaughter without using self defense as part of it which the defense did not.
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Just because the self-defense argument wasn't used in this case, doesn't mean there were not the elements in it to allow it to used.
After reading through a whole bunch of stuff about this trial and evidence presented along with testimony, the truth is that his attorney was correct in leaving the self defense aspect out of it. Again though, that doesnt mean it doesnt exist.