Well, apparently you can kill someone over popcorn, as long as you mistakenly believed that you were in imminent fear of death or great bodily harm if the guy actually proceeded to hit your elderly ass.
Anyway the best part of this trial being over will be Branca not leering at the court reporter anymore.
edit: actually I think the jury instructions probably got him off. Including all of that about it being a felony battery because he's old and privileged to use force to resist a felony battery, specifically. I thought there was still an exception that you can't use lethal force unless you're in reasonable fear of death or great bodily harm, but I sure didn't hear it, so there's basically no argument at that point. You can kill someone for throwing popcorn if you're elderly, hell you could kill someone for tapping you on the shoulder... if Chad had only been elderly and strapped, he coulda just plugged the old guy for the initial contact.