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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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Ok, but it doesn't change the fact that he actually did say this at trial.
I mean just because the defense team didn't lay out the trial strategy for a full on self defense argument doesn't really mean a thing for jurors. They can consider what they want as factual evidence. Just because the judge and lawyers set a defined trial strategy really doesn't mean much.