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 Originally Posted by Poopadoop
The shooter (i'm assuming that's who this other person was) was charged first, grand jury hung, then they charged the mother.
Yeah I misspoke and meant indicted. The grand jury wasn't hung (in the sense that it's used in the US), but rather they refused to bring her to trial because they determined it to have been in self defense.
In a number of states in the US in situations of shooting someone in self-defense, you're often charged initially before there's a pre-trial hearing to determine if the situation fell under the state's self-defense laws, etc.
Edit: Fixed a comma.
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