SOUTH BEND â Thereâs no dispute over whether Kyle Doroszko shot and killed 19-year-old Traychon Taylor in April 2019.
Instead, Doroszkoâs murder trial will hinge on whether he acted in self-defense by opening fire when Taylor and his friends tried to rob him at gunpoint, and whether he was legally allowed to protect himself with deadly force even though he was selling marijuana.
Doroszkoâs trial opened this week in a case that could test Indianaâs self-defense law, which at face value denies people the right to use force to protect themselves while engaged in even nonviolent or low-level crimes.