Colorado’s second-highest court concluded last week that an incomplete self-defense instruction required the reversal of an El Paso County defendant’s murder convictions.
Demetrius Montez Martin was among those present late at night at a club in Colorado Springs. An argument ensued and Martin got in his vehicle and drove off. Someone fired multiple gunshots in the direction of his vehicle. Martin stopped, got out, and fired his own gun back toward the crowd of people in the parking lot.
He fatally shot Margie Crow, who was driving her own vehicle and was not involved in the firefight…