Brandon Joyner
Today I watched several episodes of a new show I had never seen before, Accused: Guilty or Innocent from A&E. There is only part of the one season available but it was enough to get me hooked. When I am researching cases I generally have the television on and adding to my list of cases. Those cases generally go to the end of my list but several of the cases I heard today are next in line to be researched, including this one. This case is not a murder case, which is a rarity for me but it is still an interesting case nonetheless. This was an assault case in which a man was severely injured. The question was whether the “perpetrator,” Brandon Joyner had struck the victim, David Turner, in self defense, or in the defense of another. The twenty year old, Joyner, was looking at the possibility of spending twenty years behind bars. On the night of March 24, 2017 Brandon Joyner was outside his Spartenburg South Carolina home with some friends when he heard an argument acro...