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And abandon your kids? One reason I bring this up is that a "duty to retreat" requirement manufactured by the Massachusetts courts was used to convict a man in
by hga 11y ago
And abandon your kids?
One reason I bring this up is that a "duty to retreat" requirement manufactured by the Massachusetts courts was used to convict a man in the early '80s who wasn't willing to do that. There's a previous better known case were a woman was convicted because she didn't try to climb out of the high windows in her basement apartment.
- merpnderp 11y agoHow is it even possible for a jury to convict? The jury, judge and prosecutor's thought process are so foreign to me as to be another species.
- hga 11y agoThat's what I though, but I read it in the unsympathetic Boston Globe as it proceeded, even they couldn't spin it into anything but a travesty. Well, to someone from outside the state. Massachusetts is viciously anti-gun. Except, of course, towards the connected: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_University_of_Alabama_in_Huntsville_shooting#Brother.27s_shooting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_University_of_Alabama_in_...