| Homeowner shoots and kills robbers...surviving robber charged with the murder! [message #297058] |
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So basically, 3 robbers broke into a guys house. The homeowner got a gun, and the 3 guys ran away. As they ran away, he shot 2 of them in the back and killed them.
Here's the fucked-up part - The robber that didn't get shot to death, they charged HIM with murder! Do you think this is fair?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,311894,00.html
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LAKEPORT, Calif. — Three young black men break into a white man's home in rural Northern California. The homeowner shoots two of them to death — but it's the surviving black man who is charged with murder.
homeowner Shannon Edmonds opened fire Dec. 7 after three young men rampaged through the Clearlake house demanding marijuana and brutally beat his stepson. Rashad Williams, 21, and Christian Foster, 22, were shot in the back. Hughes fled.
Hughes was charged with first-degree murder under California's Provocative Act doctrine, versions of which have been on the books in many states for generations but are rarely used.
The Provocative Act doctrine does not require prosecutors to prove the accused intended to kill. Instead, "they have to show that it was reasonably foreseeable that the criminal enterprise could trigger a fatal response from the homeowner,"
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