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Quote by: Disinterested A New Hampshire jury once acquitted a hunter for shooting and killing his next door neighbor from his yard after mistaking her for a deer. The slain woman was wearing brown with white gardening gloves and was on all fours tending her backyard garden when the hunter standing on his own property mistook her for a deer and shot and killed her.
Because it was deer hunting season, the jury decided that the defense's argument that the woman should have known better outweighed the prosecution's argument that he should be found guilty of manslaughter and found the defendant not guilty on all counts.
yikes. | Your source for this story? Sounds like an urban legend...
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