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Prison Assault Conviction Reversed Due to Faulty Jury Instruction

Loaded on May 15, 2007

Filed under: Civil Procedure, Jury Instructions. Location: Florida.

Florida's Second District Court of Appeals has reversed a prisoner's
conviction for battery by a person detained in a prison or jail facility.
After his conviction from events that occurred at the Charlotte
Correctional Institution, prisoner Jeffrey Humbert appealed.

At trial, Humbert testified he struck another prisoner in self defense,
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