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Castle Doctrine Appeal Rejected

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WAUKESHA, WI (WHBL) - A Sheboygan Falls man who was trying to use the state’s new “Castle Doctrine” has lost his appeal of his conviction.  29 year old Charles Chew had been charged with recklessly endangering safety following an incident in November of 2012 in Sheboygan Falls when he shot and wounded two men as they ran from a Sheboygan Falls apartment building where they had attacked him.  A jury in March of last year had found Chew guilty and he was sentenced to two and a half years in prison.  Chew appealed on grounds that Judge Terrence Bourke had not given the jury an instruction on the “Castle Doctrine,” which allows use of force when a person is defending himself against an intruder in his home.  In a decision handed down Wednesday, the Appeals Court upheld Judge Bourke and concluded that Chew was not entitled to that instruction because the men fleeing the building were in a parking lot and not in Chew’s dwelling when they were shot.


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