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[QUOTE="sabach, post: 4698729, member: 866"]
That is exactly what happened here.  And the problem is that the SU adults who reviewed Allen's appeal rejected the self defense argument because of the injuries that Allen caused.  But that is stupid because Allen is a Div 1 football player so the damage he could cause is significantly greater than what I could cause even if we used the same one punch.  Now, if the allegation was that Allen got on the guy and hit him 20 times, then yes that might be excessive for someone claiming self defense.  But one punch is not inconsistent with a self defense claim, regardless of the injuries that that one punch caused.

The bottom line is that two levels of the disciplinary system stated to Allen that self defense could not be considered.  Then, at the last level of appeal the SU adults did their best to try to make it seem like self defense was reviewed probably because they sensed this was not going to look good once it got out.

Hopefully Judge Antonacci sees this for what it was, a disciplinary hearing that genuinely refused to accept a one punch self defense as a defense argument to being struck twice by someone else so as to prevent that someone else from hitting them a third time.  And if the Judge does see it that way, there may and I say may be grounds to hold that the decision was arbitrary and capricious and strike it down.
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