[Vaquero]

" First, the neighbor better have been guilty. And not just guilty of patting her on the bottom."

Counsel for the defense(heard this on the radio). is claiming that the Lawyer killed the man as he "believed" the man molested his child. Another lawyer talking about it on the radio said that by confessing to doing the killing because he "believed", what he believed may be enough to make the charges be acceptable for a justifiable manslaughter.

[LibertyRocks]

I still don't understand how someone could think this is justifiable. You cannot take the law into your own hands like that. I haven't seen any proof yet that the neighbor did molest this man's daughter. I'd like to know what kind of evidence the father was working with as well. Still doesn't make it justifiable homicide though -- temporary insanity maybe -- justifiable? Not in my opinion.

[DB]

If you aren't being actively threatened, believing isn't enough.

If someone is making threats - and you believe them - that's a valid legal defense for taking out the threat.