normal language: the defendant was at the party when the shooting occured and witnessed many people getting shot

word-salad legalese: the happenstance of the defendent's attendence at the celebratory gathering was seceded by the alleged gunfire and bore witness to a multitude of persons sustaining severe wounds obtained by firearm trajectories

like...what? an english prof would mark these laws down for "excess fluff"

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