P. v. Hoeft-Edenfield
In this tragic case, an alcohol-fueled brawl ended in the death of one young man and the imprisonment of another. Defendant Andrew Hoeft-Edenfield and a friend were followed by a group of young men gathered outside a university fraternity house as they walked home from a party early one morning. An angry confrontation ensued. As the confrontation escalated, defendant began waving a pocketknife at the gathering crowd. In an apparent attempt to control defendant, one of the group grabbed him from behind and was fatally stabbed. Defendant was convicted of second degree murder. He raises several grounds for reversal of his conviction, but we find no merit in them and affirm.
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