Williams v. Baugh

OPINION

HOWARD, Presiding Judge.

¶ 1 Appellant/defendant Jaydon Baugh challenges the trial court’s finding that he was liable to appellee/plaintiff Royce Williams as a matter of law and granting summary judgment in favor of Williams on the issue of liability in Williams’s assault action. Baugh argues that A.R.S. § 13-807, which prohibits a defendant convicted in a criminal case from denying the essential allegations of the criminal conviction in a subsequent civil ease, does not bar him from raising the affirmative defenses of justification, contributory negligence, and comparative fault.…