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"Charges have been dropped against a man arrested in September after his handgun discharged during a scuffle outside a downtown Eugene bar, slightly injuring a bystander."
"Prosecutors said they cannot prove that 25-year-old Mathew James Hangsleben, an Army veteran, intentionally fired the weapon, or that he was not acting lawfully in self-defense." ...
"'It was our conclusion there was no way we could prove, one, that this was a knowing discharge of a weapon ... And he was lawfully in possession of the weapon. Also, there was no way we could overcome a self-defense claim,' [Deputy Lane County District Attorney Erik] Hasselman said." ... -------
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