Maine man who bit off a portion of another man's ear during fight cleared of assault charges
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A Maine man who bit off the portion of another man's ear during a fight has been has been acquitted of assault charges.
A Kennebec County Superior Court jury on Wednesday cleared Dylan Nathaniel Hendsbee of charges connected to the fight in April 2013 in which a third man suffered a fractured jaw.
The 22-year-old Gardiner man testified that he was being choked by Jason Robert Kimball and biting his ear was the only way to defend himself.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Kimball had come to the aid of another man who was on Hendsbee's family's property and had not left after being warned he was trespassing.
The Kennebec Journal (http://bit.ly/1qSLMhd ) reports that Hendsbee's attorney said his client was trying to get strangers off his property and thus had every right to use force.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Information from: Kennebec Journal, http://www.kjonline.com/