ALBANY – The Court of Appeals agreed with a defendant Tuesday who said the manner in which juries are instructed fails to clearly define the circumstances when people can legally intervene to protect others in a fight.
The unanimous court said in People v. Walker, 147, that the instructions Monroe County Supreme Court Justice Joseph Valentino gave at Christopher Walker’s murder trial in 2007 likely confused jurors about whether or not a justification defense applied.
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