Legal Opinion
Vasquez v. Jones
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided July 24, 2007No. 04-2274PublishedCited by 114 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
AMENDED OPINION
COOK, Circuit Judge.
Emilio Salomon Vasquez appeals the district court’s denial of his habeas corpus petition. We reverse and remand with instructions to grant the petition.
I. Facts and Procedural History
In 1995, a dispute at a block party between Deondre Byrd and William Taylor escalated into a shootout in which an innocent bystander, Tamara Stewart, was killed. Vasquez told police investigating the crime that when the melee erupted, he grabbed a .22 caliber rifle from William Taylor and fired it in self-defense. No weapons were recovered from the scene, but forensics…
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