Self-inflicted stab wound for simulating self-defense?
Schnabel, A.; Neis, P.; Niess, C.
Archiv für Kriminologie 203(5-6): 147-151
1999
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-9225 PMID: 10418665 Document Number: 511609
During a violent conflict, a young man was shot dead in front of a bar. The offender stated that he had acted in self defence after having been attacked with a knife. Taking into account the testimonies, the medical findings (f. ex. sonotomogram of the left femur) as well as the crime scene regarding the position of the body, it could not be excluded from the forensic point of view that a knife attack of the later victim had taken place. Nevertheless, the court convicted the man who had shot for murder and gave a life prison sentence.