MEMORANDUM ORDER
RAKOFF, District Judge.
When one person badly beats another, leaving him bloody and battered, may the assaulter escape arrest by simply asserting, without corroboration, that he was acting in self-defense? Common sense suggests otherwise, and the law, as this case illustrates, follows the suggestion.
The facts pertinent to defendants' instant summary judgment motion, undisputed except as otherwise indicated, are as follows...
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