Sounds like an application of "stand your ground" here in Texas with even crazier evidence/facts.
Murder charge dropped for drug dealer who shot thief
By Craig Kapitan
Published 09:53 p.m., Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Prosecutors have dropped a murder allegation against a San Antonio drug dealer awaiting trial for the fatal shooting of a customer who tried to rip him off — instead allowing him to plead guilty to a marijuana charge.
Jacob Andrew Trevino, 27, will now face up to two years in a state jail facility when he is sentenced next month before state District Judge Maria Teresa Herr.
Trevino was arrested in November 2010 for the murder of Ryan Christopher Jones, 24, who was shot multiple times with a stolen .38 Special revolver, court do ents state.
Witnesses said Jones was supposed to purchase a pound of marijuana from Trevino for $4,500 in the garage of a Northwest Side residence when he instead pulled out a can of pepper spray, deployed it and grabbed the drugs. A friend of Jones' later acknowledged the theft plot to police and said he was there with a semi-automatic gun, which was never fired, as back-up.
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