Tailgate Party Shooting

<span style="font-weight: 400;">A Texas appeals court <a href="http://www.search.txcourts.gov/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=1df410f2-3556-40c8-b45c-e5f7adf00c9d&MediaID=d798417b-e618-4742-9ca3-e5d9124ba368&coa=COA02&DT=Opinion"><strong>ruled</strong></a> that a man convicted for shooting another man in the neck during a brawl that broke out during a tailgate party outside of the Dallas Cowboys’ stadium had no right to a self-defense jury instruction, because he said that he did not intend for the gun to go off and the victim did not provoke him. </span>

FORT WORTH, Texas – A Texas appeals court ruled that a man convicted for shooting another man in the neck during a brawl that broke out during a tailgate party outside of the Dallas Cowboys’ stadium had no right to a self-defense jury instruction, because he said that he did not intend for the gun to go off and the victim did not provoke him.

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