The “pathetic clown” comment came after the posts I was referring to.
Yes, personal attacks are a bad idea. TexasGurl24 did not need to do that. She was winning on logic and fact.
You are probably correct. I shouldn’t have snapped like that. I do get miffed when people just make up laws, we have enough bad judges doing that very thing.
No where was there ever an “old west law” of “shooting someone in the back is always murder and you are immediately hung.”
That’s something pulled out of thin air.
The law was actually the opposite of that. At common law, the police could kill any escaping felon.
The Supreme Court modified it from ANY fleeing felons to:
1. Felons who were threatening with a deadly weapon; or
2. Felons who had committed a crime involving the infliction or threatened infliction of death or serious bodily injury.
Shooting an escaping felon who passed a bad check or committed an unarmed burglary is a no-go now.
Shooting an escaping felon who has murdered someone is still in bounds, pursuant to Garner.
Now some States are even more restrictive than what Garner allows, but the California Code (until this year) was very permissible, and basically tracked Garner.