Cannon v. State

TRAYNOR, Justice:

In a girls' bathroom in a Wilmington high school, a verbal confrontation between two 16-year-old students, Tracy Cannon and Alcee Johnson-Franklin, 1 turned physical when Tracy threw Alcee to the ground and started throwing punches. Alcee tried to protect herself from the blows, and the two ended up on the floor of the bathroom, grappling and kicking at each other. It was over in less than a minute, but within two hours of the assault, Alcee was pronounced dead-not from blunt-force trauma, but from a rare heart condition that even Alcee did not know she had. This tragic…