Best headline ever? Man acquitted in romantic bear-spray squabble
A San Francisco man was acquitted Thursday of breaking into his ex-fiancée’s house and assaulting her new lover before getting sprayed with bear mace by a shirtless neighbor.
Jurors deliberated for just three hours before finding Christoper Hall, 31, innocent of the two felonies.
The “chaotic and confusing” night began on March 25 when Hall broke off his plans to marry his 34-year-old fiancée, said Deputy Public Defender Phoenix Streets.
The two had met in a hacky-sack circle in early February and announced plans to marry just two weeks later, Streets said. But the relationship quickly turned tumultuous, Streets said, and the pair broke up on March 25.
Hall took his few possessions and moved out of his fiancée’s home and into a tree at Mclaren Park. But as Hall climbed the tree and attempted to sleep that first night, he became cold and returned home, Streets said.
Hall’s former lover was not there, so Hall “curled up under a tarp under the woman’s backyard bushes,” Streets said.
Around 10 p.m., the woman, who had been at the movies with a “new male friend,” returned home. The man “happened to be a former U.S. Marine with extensive combat training,” Streets said.
As the woman and her new friend talked in the kitchen, they heard noises outside and decided to investigate. The woman armed herself with a knife while the friend grabbed a frying pan, Streets said.
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The rest of the story- http://blog.sfgate.com/crime/2013/07/19/man-acquitted-in-romantic-bear-spray-squabble/
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