‘Stand your ground’ petition filed in deadly shooting outside St. Augustine bar

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ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – A “stand your ground” petition has been filed successful the deadly shooting of Adam Amoia, a antheral who investigators accidental was killed during an altercation extracurricular Dos Gatos successful St. Augustine.

Luis Casado is charged with manslaughter and carrying a concealed firearm successful the shooting, which occurred successful May.

In the petition, Patrick Canan, Casado’s attorney, states that Amoia and different antheral “began to abruptly and successful performance violently attack” Casado “for nary evident reason.”

Casado was seen talking with respective of Amoia’s friends extracurricular the bar, a speech that the petition says “was of nary existent value and surely thing threatening.” The petition says “Amoia, drunk and leaning connected the wall, abruptly became assertive and insisted that Mr. Casado permission immediately,” adjacent though Casado “did thing to incite rudeness oregon violence.”

The petition says that earlier Casado had a accidental to “make consciousness of Mr. Amoia’s bizarre request,” Amoia shoved him, past deed him successful the face, knocking disconnected his glasses, rendering Casado legally blind. It states the different antheral past punched Casado and Amoia followed that by hitting Casado 4 much times successful the face, erstwhile Casado “found himself forced up against a wall.”

The petition says aft Amoia deed Casado 2 much times, “he was acrophobic for his beingness and changeable his firearm to forestall superior bodily wounded oregon adjacent death.”

The petition points retired the series took 15 seconds and was caught connected surveillance video. Casado’s lawyer notes that his lawsuit has nary anterior transgression history, but that some Amoia and the different antheral do.

Attorney Gene Nichols, who is not affiliated with the case, spoke with News4Jax astir the petition.

“If the tribunal decides to contradict this motion, it does not mean that Mr. Casado volition not enactment up a aforesaid defence (claim), which successful essence volition beauteous overmuch beryllium the aforesaid thing. At a trial, Mr. Casado volition evidently support himself beauteous overmuch the aforesaid mode helium would basal your crushed motion,” Nichols said.

The petition besides includes the toxicology study connected Amoia’s assemblage from the aesculapian examiner. Amoia’s humor intoxicant concertation level was .266, much than 3 times the ineligible bounds for driving successful Florida. The study recovered helium besides had hydrocodone and marijuana successful his system.

“What you’re going to spot is the State Attorney’s Office is going to enactment connected each of the grounds that they judge volition trump the basal your crushed question to amusement what Mr. Casado was doing, what mistakes helium made, wherefore helium could person walked distant from the situation, immoderate it is that they tin establish,” Nichols explained.

News4Jax connected Monday day requested remark from household members and friends of Amoia. At the time, nary 1 was funny successful speaking astir the petition.

In June, the household led a locomotion done downtown St. Augustine for Amoia, who they accidental was well-known successful the edifice industry.

“No substance what happens, we’ll ne'er get him back, but we judge that justness volition prevail,” Rosalina Chryssaidis, Amoia’s cousin, said connected the nighttime of the walk.

A justice has acceptable an April day for the basal your crushed hearings.

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