Doctor indicted for shooting road-rage attacker

(San Francisco Chronicle) Less than a month after a judge dismissed his criminal case, a 71-year-old doctor was indicted on charges that he shot a 70-year-old man who followed him to his Corte Madera home in a road-rage confrontation.

James Stephen Simon will appear Friday in Marin County Superior Court to answer a grand jury indictment accusing him of assault with a deadly weapon and negligent discharge of a firearm.

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Earlier this month, Judge Kelly Simmons ruled at the end of a preliminary hearing that Simon would not stand trial on charges of attempted voluntary manslaughter and assault with a firearm in the shooting that wounded William Osenton of Tiburon.

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