DOVER, Del. (AP) - The state Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a former University of Delaware football player convicted of assaulting a teammate in the locker room.
The court last week upheld the conviction of Jerel Harrison, who argued that a trial judge used the wrong legal standard in rejecting his claim of self-defense.
The justices said that after an initial error, the judge used the correct standard in declaring that prosecutors had disproven his self-defense justification beyond a reasonable doubt. They noted that several witnesses said they did not see teammate Malcom Brown hit Harrison first in the August 2015 incident.
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Police said Harrison struck Brown in the head with his helmet. Brown suffered a broken jaw and a concussion.
Harrison was sentenced to six months in prison for second-degree assault.
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