(AP) -- The South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled that a Goose Creek man sentenced to life in prison in a 2000 shooting death should get a new trial because of mistakes made by his attorneys.

Justice James Moore wrote in the opinion today that Richard Jeremy Tisdale's conviction should be reversed because his lawyers didn't ask that jurors be allowed to consider that the shooting may have been an accident.

Tisdale was sentenced to life in prison in 2002 for the shooting death of Lavell David Anderson.

Prosecutors said Tisdale killed Anderson because he thought he was connected with the murder of his brother.

Moore says jurors should have been allowed to consider involuntary manslaughter or accidental shooting because there was evidence that the men struggled over the gun.

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