It s all about planting just one seed of reasonable doubt.
That’s what attorneys for former Brevard County Sheriff’s Deputy Yousef Hafza hope to sow in the mind of one of the six jurors this week during the 37-year-old man’s second-degree murder trial for the Father’s Day shooting death of 25-year-old Clarence Howard during a road rage incident while Hafza was off-duty.
Perhaps reasonable doubt was planted when Brevard County Sheriff’s Office Major Alex Herrera testified, after being called for the defense Thursday, that deputies – whether on-duty of off – can use deadly force in response to a perceived deadly threat regardless of whether the other person is actually armed.