“She was doing the guy repeatedly in the marital home. The kid absolutely new she was married. The husband told the kid to stay away and the kid sat out front of the house in his car and basically told the husband to go F himself, which then precipitated the demise of said kid. He had it coming.”
In Texas we call that the “he needed killin” defense. Works better than the insanity plea.
LOL. That's basically what happened. The kid argued that the gun fired accidentally. Under this factual scenario it was a lot easier for the jury to understand how the gun could have "accidentally" been fired.