Key legal question
Whether the defendant could rely on self-defense after provoking the renewed fight
Extracted holding
No. By throwing stones at the victim after the earlier confrontation had ended, the defendant intentionally provoked the renewed brawl and therefore could not invoke self-defense.
Extracted reasoning
The court found a clear break between the first and second phases of the incident. Given the victim's earlier readiness to fight and the defendant's own deliberate escalation by stone-throwing, he knowingly brought about the violent confrontation.