Missouri | Defender with Knife Not Guilty of Murder

By Dean Weingarten

Arizona -(Ammoland.com)- -On November 29 of 2016, in St. Louis, Missouri, Terrell McDaniel, 36, was attacked by Robert Collins, 44. Collins was intoxicated and attacked McDaniel with a milk crate. During the affray, McDaniels defended himself with a knife, stabbing Collins numerous times. Collins died at the scene. From stltoday.com:

According to his lawyer, Joe Whitener, McDaniel told the jury he feared for his life during a street fight. Collins was intoxicated and belligerent when he asked McDaniel for drugs, and McDaniel refused. Collins then tried to attack McDaniel with a Prairie Farms milk crate, Whitener said, and McDaniel stabbed Collins several times, including in the heart.

“He was afraid and he feared that he was going to be beat up very badly,” Whitener said.

Missouri’s self-defense law, expanded in 2016, says a person has a right to defend one’s self against an attack without a duty to retreat if someone “reasonably” perceives threat of deadly force.

That was the argument Whitener said he made to the jury.

“The jury saw that what Terrell did was reasonable and that he was defending himself,” he said. …Read the Rest

Source:: AmmoLand