A jury has found a delivery driver not guilty in the shooting of a YouTube prankster who was following him around a mall food court earlier this year

A jury has found a delivery driver not guilty in the shooting of a YouTube prankster who was following him around a mall food court earlier this year

  • merc@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    That would corroborate his lawyers saying that a conviction after a finding of a lack of malice is inconsistent.

    Except the next paragraph says:

    If any such act be done unlawfully, but not maliciously, the person so offending is guilty of a Class 6 felony;

    But, if the shooting was in self-defense, was it unlawful? Maybe the guy was legally allowed to defend himself, but not legally allowed to shoot a gun inside a crowded food court. Like, the self-defense covers him for injuring another person, but it doesn’t cover the danger he posed to other people when he did it?