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Would this case fall under the new "Castle Doctrine" in Texas?

A jury Thursday convicted a man of murder for shooting a teenage neighbor who walked on his obsessively maintained lawn.

The jury deliberated less than four hours before finding Charles Martin, 67, guilty of murder. Martin was tried on a charge of aggravated murder, but jurors convicted him on the lesser count of murder because they could not agree the killing was planned.

The defense didn't dispute that Martin shot 15-year-old Larry Mugrage Jr. after he stepped on the lawn Martin meticulously cared for, mowing it as many as five times a week.

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Posts: 2138 | Location: McKinney, Texas, USA | Registered: February 15, 2001Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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You know JR, in Fort Bend they had one the these cases tried by a former co-worker of mine against a promenent defense attorney in Houston. In dispute was an approx. 3 foot strip of grass located between two neighbors driveways next to the street. One of the neighbors liked it trimmed closer than the other.

At least one of the neighbors went so far as to install multiple video cameras outside their home, focusing on the yard, natch. Finally, one of them had enough and while the victim was mowing his yard, the defendant allegedly attacked him from the blind side with a shovel, striking him several times. The assault was captured on video and became a news event in the Houston area.

The case was tried and I think the jury found the shovel man guilty of the lesser of Class A assault instead of Aggravated Assault.

I have no information as to how that particular piece of grass is now trimmed.
 
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