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NC man convicted of sawed-off shotgun killing entitled to new trial

A man convicted of killing his homeowner’s adult son with a sawed-off shotgun is entitled to a new trial because the presiding judge did not instruct jurors on a possible self-defense argument, the state says. The Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday. A three-judge panel reversed the first-degree murder conviction of Ronald Wayne Vaughan Jr. […]