Question juridique clé
Whether the appellate court arbitrarily assessed the evidence and violated in dubio pro reo by accepting that the victim drew a gun first.
Solution extraite
Yes. The appellate court relied on speculation, not a complete assessment of the witness statements and surrounding evidence, so its factual findings were arbitrary.
Motifs extraits
The court found that the appellate judgment did not contain a proper statement-by-statement credibility analysis. It drew unsupported inferences from the holster, cigarette pack, alleged collusion, and weapon use, while ignoring contradictions and several circumstances pointing the other way.