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    North Carolina's intermediate appeals court says a man convicted of killing someone with a sawed-off shotgun is entitled to a new trial because the judge failed to instruct jurors about a possible self-defense argument. A three-judge panel on Tuesday vacated the first-degree murder conviction of Ronald Wayne Vaughn Jr. in the 2017 shooting death of Gary Somerset. It happened during a dispute with Vaughn's landlord over a trailer he was renting in Lincoln County. Somerset was the landlord's son. He yelled ‘let’s end this' and rushed at Vaughn before he was killed. The panel said jurors should have been told about a possible stand-your-ground defense.

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