At 5:39 AM -0700 5/28/04, Guy Smith wrote:
>> Specifically, do these various courts mysteriously change their tune when
>> wounded criminals show up in court suing on the theory that "the defendant
>> used deadly force against me by discharging a firearm in my direction, yet
>> must have felt that deadly force was not immediately justified since he
>> purposely shot to miss?"
>
> Also, is the legal danger to warning/peripheral shots one of the wrath of
> the court, or the wrath of the lawyer who will sue for damage? In other
> words, a dead perp cannot bankrupt you in court.
I'm not sure why this is widely believed. Dead perps have estates which
can sue you just as easily as a live perp can himself... and they do every
day. For evidence, simply pull up Google and feed it:
"didn't have to shoot him" suit OR suing
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