Staine, testified that on June 14, 2009, at around 3 p.m., he went to buy dog food from a vendor who was located near the park. While he was there, he urgently needed to urinate and decided to do just that on a tree in a secluded area of the Battlefield Park.

He told the court, that when he was just about finished, a man, who he knew as Dekel Bennett, approached him and told him that what he had done was against park rules. Staine said that he completely ignored the man because he had already done it.

According to Staine, he was attempted to walk away, but Bennett approached him. Staine saw Bennett with a knife, feared the worst and then picked up a rock, and threw it at Bennett, and that's when Bennett stabbed him once in the abdomen and sliced him twice on the arm.

In his defense, Bennett gave a dock statement in which he explained that Staine stoned him twice and that's when he pulled out the knife and used it to defend himself by inflicting the stab wound.

Bennett ended his statement saying that he never had intentions of doing what he did, but he had to defend against the rock which struck him in the head.

A jury of 9 men accepted Staine's explanation of self - defense, and acquitted him of attempted murder, and the alternate charge of use of deadly means of harm.

Bennett was able to leave the court a free man for the first time since that evening in 2009. He told reporters that he has 2 children that he will now be able to provide for.