05-08) 18:01 PDT OAKLAND -- The Berkeley City College student charged with murder in the weekend stabbing death of a UC Berkeley student on fraternity row may not have committed a crime, the defendant's attorney said Thursday.
Andrew Hoeft-Edenfield, 20, appeared briefly today in Alameda County Superior Court in Oakland but did not enter a plea in Saturday's slaying of 21-year-old Christopher Wootton. He has been charged with murder and clauses alleging use of a knife and infliction of great bodily injury......
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Wootton's friends and family members said they believe he may have been killed while trying to defuse a fight at the edge of a sorority's parking lot on Warring Street.
A student who saw the dispute from across the street, but asked not to be identified, said that about 20 Sigma Pi fraternity brothers had argued with Hoeft-Edenfield and a second man who was armed with a rum bottle. Wootton was a member of the fraternity........
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