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Concealed-carry permit holder acquitted in fatal shooting at Far East Side gas station<\/a><\/p>\n

A Franklin County jury decided Friday that a 32-year-old man with a concealed-carry permit was acting in self defense when he fatally shot another man during a confrontation at a Far East Side gas station.<\/p>\n

Nehemiah Martin of the Far East Side was acquitted of murder charges in the Jan. 22 shooting death of 31-year-old Brandon Clark.<\/p>\n

The jury deliberated for less than three hours before returning the not-guilty verdict to Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Colleen O’Donnell.<\/p>\n

Although murder cases rarely go to trial in less than a year even without the Covid-19 pandemic, Martin refused to waive his statutory right to a speedy trial while in jail on a $1 million bond, which meant prosecutors had to bring the case to trial within 90 days.<\/p>\n

“Nehimah was in jail on a sky-high bond,” his attorney, Sam Shamansky, told The Dispatch. “We felt that we would be fully available to proceed within the speedy trial guidelines and felt a delay would be prejudicial to my client. Usually the passage of time works to the benefit of the defendant, so this was counterintuitive.”<\/p>\n

Shamansky, a veteran Columbus defense attorney, said he has never tried a murder case so soon after the date of the incident.<\/p>\n

Testimony during the weeklong trial revealed that Martin went to the Shell station in the 5900 block of East Main Street, near McNaughten Road, on Jan. 22 for a pre-arranged meeting to pick up his twin boys from the children’s mother.<\/p>\n

Martin testified that he was trying to remove the children from their car seats when he was assaulted by Clark, the mother’s live-in boyfriend, who had accompanied her to the gas station.<\/p>\n

Martin, who was lawfully carrying a concealed handgun, said he was being beaten so savagely by Clark that he pulled his gun and fired one shot in self-defense.<\/p>\n

Clark was struck in the abdomen. He was transported in critical condition to Mount Carmel East hospital, where he died the next morning.<\/p>\n

After the shooting, Martin went to his grandmother’s house, where Columbus police arrested him after he called 911 to report the incident.<\/p>\n

The mother of Martin’s twin boys testified against him and in support of her late boyfriend during the trial.<\/p>\n

Clark had been released from prison just four months before his death after serving a six-year sentence for a kidnapping conviction in Franklin County, court records show.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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