One man watching tv eating ice cream on the sofa in his own apartment, one cop who said she was tired, one lawyer who says she has the right to act deadly, everybody knows the rules!
This defense lawyer is a POS
Right... right. And if I, as a concealed carrier, get wasted and ventilate someone, I too was acting in self defense (at least according to my thoughts at the time)... Sure.
The victim’s brother forgave and hugged her in court - more than I could have done in the same situation.
She had the right to act in deadly force in self-defense after she VIOLENTLY BROKE into another Persons Home while Armed??
Now can we KILL THE LAWYERS????
I hope they repeal the ten years...and give her 20-to-life.
In general (don’t know about Texas), laws require that the claim of self-defense be “reasonable”. The policewoman’s life was not in danger by any objective standard. By arguing that her subjective (and demonstrably incorrect) judgement of the situation justified her use of deadly force, her lawyer admits that her actions were not “reasonable”. If such arguments held, every murderer could claim that he/she thought the victim was a velociraptor about to eat them; maybe it wasn’t so, but they had a right to defend themselves. No way will the Appeals Court accept this.
Her errors and subjective mental state were already considered — otherwise the sentence would have been much more harsh.
In Texas, if the cops break into your house even with a no-knock warrant and the resident shoots and kills the cops, there is a strong likelihood the prosecutor will not get an indictment from a grand jury.
This has been the result often enough that law enforcement agencies have pretty much stopped executing or even applying for no-knock warrants.