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Appeals court weighs self-defense instruction in scooter confrontation
Summary
The court heard argument over whether a defendant should have received a self-defense instruction after a scooter-on-pedestrian confrontation; defense counsel said the trial judge relied too heavily on a silent video and improperly excluded testimony about the alleged victim’s history of carrying a knife.
Peter Brewer, representing appellant William Reagan, told the Appeals Court that the trial judge erred by denying a jury instruction on self defense after a street confrontation that escalated on a sidewalk. Brewer said the evidence — including a stipulatively admitted silent video, witness testimony that the victim sometimes carried a knife, and the defendant’s account of being confronted — sufficed to create a question for the jury.
“Any evidence that would…
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