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From: "Sandy Sandfort" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 1:56 PM
Subject: RE: Secret Warrants and Black Bag Jobs--Questions
> Tim wrote:
>
> > 2) What happens in these breaking-and-entering raids if the homeowner
> > surprises the burglar and kills him? Is a homeowner supposed to somehow
> > know that the person sneaking around his home has a secret warrant
> > signed by a secret judge in a secret courtroom?
>
> I agree with Dr. Evil about the unlikelihood of it ever happening, but if it
> did, I think the intruder is toast. In California, there is the presumption
> that anyone in your house (at least after dark, though I'd have to research
> that) is there with the intent of causing death or great bodily harm. He
> doesn't have to do anything overt like raise a crowbar. So you can just
> shoot first and ask questions later.
I didn't realize any states but Virginia still held this old "burglary"
definition. Are you certain that's current law?
