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Versions of events wildly differ between warring neighbors
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James Jay Smith, (center) is flanked by his wife Brenda and defense lawyer Rich Cassady during a courtroom break in Robbinsville on March 3. Smith was acquitted of attempted first-degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury the following day. Photos by Randy Foster/news@grahamstar.com -
Joe (left) and Kim Shaffer leave the courtroom on Friday. Joe Shaffer had accused his neighbor, James Smith, of attempting to kill him with a shotgun in July 2016.
Robbinsville – There are serious differences between James Smith’s and Joe Shaffer’s accounts of the July 27, 2016 shootout outside Smith’s Fontana Heights house.
But in the end, it came down to one…