If you fear for your life and shoot the squatter is that setf defense?
I want it to be true that someone who fears for their life in that situation (or in a carjacking or mugging) will be legally safe but I cannot be confident of it.
Last night’s nonfiction series iCrime with Elizabeth Vargas had a woman of color who deliberately and angrily rammed her car in reverse into a white man’s car-—four times. He got out and stupidly tried to stop her from getting away by standing behind her car with his hands on the trunk and talking to her. She hit him and knocked him down but didn’t seriously hurt him.
The young woman lawyer in her interview said the man was wrong as well as foolish because “he could be charged with the crime of false imprisonment” by deterring her movement to get away in the car. Leaving the scene and damage to the man’s car are iffy but the “false imprisonment” could get the man prison time.
Our system. (spit)