Question juridique clé
Whether the appellate court arbitrarily found that the assault caused the victim's carotid dissection and stroke.
Solution extraite
No arbitrary assessment was shown; the medical evidence made a traumatic cause far more likely than a spontaneous one.
Motifs extraits
The court relied on expert evidence that traumatic dissections can follow blows, kicks, head-neck trauma, or a fall; spontaneous dissection was deemed highly unlikely given the victim's age and lack of vessel disease. The appellant's alternative explanations remained theoretical.