Monday, August 28, 2006

El Dorado, Kansas

From the El Dorado Times of August 28, 2006
Thomison found not guilty

A Butler County jury has returned a not guilty verdict in a case involving a shooting last year in El Dorado.

Bart M. Thomison, 21, had been charged with murder in the second degree or, in the alternative, involuntary manslaughter.

That was in connection with the shooting death of Joshua Freed, 19, at about 11 p.m. on the night of Aug. 18 of last year.

The shooting occurred as the result of a confrontration between Thomison and Freed in a driveway at a residence in the 1200 block of Douglas Road.
What follows is an extensive account of the background, the judge's instructions and statements by both attorneys. There is a strong implication that the jury accepted Thominson’s claim of self-defense, but no explicit statement to that effect appears here.

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