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Imminent and reasonable reduce to feeling rather easily. As an exercise, could you cite cases where reasonable and imminent were found to not be justified in ca
by aswanson 11y ago
Imminent and reasonable reduce to feeling rather easily. As an exercise, could you cite cases where reasonable and imminent were found to not be justified in case law?
- wl 11y agoLook at any murder trial where self-defense is raised and fails. Blackstone wrote about this even. It's very old, well settled law. If you must have a somewhat recent, high profile example, you may be interested in this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Jordan_Davis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Jordan_Davis
- aswanson 11y agoGive me the stats on where lethal force is used on an unarmed citizen and a wrongful death/manslaughter conviction is levied against an officer.