Retrial ordered for man who shot friend in yard
RALEIGH — A North Carolina man convicted of fatally shooting a neighbor will get a new trial because the jury wasn’t properly instructed about his right to defend his home, an appeals court ruled Tuesday. The North Carolina Court of Appeals found that the jury should have received standard instructions about the state’s “castle doctrine” law before it found Donald Kuhns, who’s now 59, guilty of voluntary manslaughter in 2016.Kuhns and his neighbor, Johnny […]
