Reply #7: Sounds like the "fell on my knife" defense

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http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE4DF1239F934A35757C0A964958260

Defendant in Tourist Killing Maintains That Victim Fell on Knife

One of three defendants on trial for the murder of Brian Watkins, a Utah tourist who was slain in a subway station in 1990, described in a videotaped statement played in a Manhattan courtroom yesterday how the victim died when "he fell on my knife."

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"I had my knife out in my right hand and this blond guy fell toward my knife," Mr. Morales said in the videotaped statement, which was taken from him on Sept. 3, 1990, the day after the police said the 22-year-old Mr. Watkins was stabbed to death while trying to defend his family from being beaten and robbed in the 53d Street Station of the IND subway.