04-11-2012, 08:06 PM
They might plea it down 1 charge maybe to man slaughter, but I bet they can make 2nd degree stick. Z initiated the confrontation and was not fearing for his life at that point, he persued TM even after being told not to so he wasn't afraid at that point. Somewhere right after that he found TM or TM found him and started dispensing a beatdown, thats about the only tactic street rats know. Thats when Z became afraid and where TM made a mistake. By jumping up and simply wailing away at Z, he was not defending nor denying Z the ability to strike back. Z was at that point very afraid, was able to get to his weapon and did so. One untrained idiot scrapping with annother one. The list is long on the mistakes Z made. TM not so much, but it was critical, if your going to confront someone and you do not know if they are armed, you have to take them down and deny them access to any defence. That means tackling and pinning and controlling.