Interesting Self Defense Case (shooting)

[BushMasterBoy]

Guy is hanging out at some kind of biker rally. A bigger guy starts attacking him physically. Big guy gets the smaller guy on the ground and starts choking him out. Smaller guy shoots and kills the big guy. Some kind of gun organization seems to help with his defense in court. He gets a not guilty verdict. Seems like some kind unprofessionalism in the prosecution. Maybe somebody here knows more of the details.



http://kfor.com/2017/08/24/oklahoma-...ter-walk-free/

[Duman]

He got away and was attacked a second and third time.....was able to get his gun, and shoot in self defense.....something's missing from that story.

[cstone]

http://www.wilsontimes.com/stories/m...ng-death,90633

TRIAL TESTIMONY
Wilkerson approached Maddox outside the convention center bathroom the night of the incident. Maddox testified that Wilkerson threw him up against the wall and eventually got him on the ground and was on top of him. Wilkerson choked him, Maddox testified, causing him to black out for several seconds. He reached for the only thing he had at the time, a small box cutter he normally carried on him for work purposes. It took four men to get Wilkerson, a 300-pound man, off of him.

Maddox eventually got away, but Wilkerson approached him again — this time on the side of the convention center. That’s where, according to testimony, Wilkerson threw him up against a car, and it took two men to pry him off him again. Maddox testified he didn’t know what would happen next. He feared for his life and believed that if Wilkerson got in control of the situation again, he was going to kill him.

He retrieved his gun. Wilkerson pulled up on his motorcycle, parked it and got off. He started to charge Maddox, according to testimony. Wilkerson grabbed him, and Maddox shot him.

The two wrestled on the ground where he fired additional shots.

Maddox had also called 911. When he talked to the 911 operator, he did everything they told him to do.

He also told them what had happened. Maddox waited for police to arrive in a well-lit area.

[Bailey Guns]

IF that's what happened, sounds like a valid case of self-defense to me.

[MarkCO]

Yep

[Aloha_Shooter]

If that's what happened, I wonder why the DA decided to prosecute. That sounds pretty clear-cut to me and I'd be pretty annoyed as a taxpayer that the DA went after him.

[spqrzilla]

If that's what happened, I wonder why the DA decided to prosecute. That sounds pretty clear-cut to me and I'd be pretty annoyed as a taxpayer that the DA went after him.

If I had to guess, because "biker".

[cstone]

If that's what happened, I wonder why the DA decided to prosecute. That sounds pretty clear-cut to me and I'd be pretty annoyed as a taxpayer that the DA went after him.

Needed a trial to get the trial testimony.

I would like to see the jury. I would guess the defense attorneys won this case at jury selection.