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Old 07-11-2013, 08:04 AM
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GZ has told so many different versions of that night. One portion did not vary and that was that he felt that TM was going to get his gun and he got to it first and fired. Based on that, it should be self defense but guilty of total stupidity for not just calling in and then leaving the rest up to actual law enforcement. TM was not in the commission of a crime when spotted by GZ, just looked suspicious to him. He might not have looked suspicious to someone else. That was GZ's judgment alone.

The fact that he was in a fight is not what he has said that made him fear for his life. TM reaching for his gun was. If what he says about that is true, then I don't understand why so much emphasis has been on the fight being his big fear and very little on that part. As a juror, that is what I would question.
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