I am not advocating breaking the law in any manner way shape or form.
I have advised people in the use of force and trickery to save their lives or protect themselves from potential harm.
Following is a complete fiction.
A man follows a woman, she feels threatened. He attacks, she throws a handfull of cayenne pepper into his face. He is momentarily blinded. At that moment she stabs with a butcher knife into his stomach, when he pitches forward, she follows with a side stab/slash through the arterial artery in his neck.
Afterwards she wipes the blade on his clothing and walks away. Not runs, just walk. Over the next day or two, she disposes of all her clothing and the knife in different places far from the scene of the attack on her life.
My question is, has the ficticious woman in this scene committed a crime? Or has she merely engaged in self-defense?
Started as self defense and ended as a crime.
Personally going with self-defense with the expectation of being accused of murder if “caught” (by reporting it to the police).
How about a common sense approach.
Move somewhere you're not threatened by your fellow man.
No crime, just dispaching a scum-bag to his great reward.
Question: Why’s this lady walking around with kitchen items?
As for the answer, cajungirl is right. She will have performed a valuable service to society, and she might suffer repercussions from reporting her defense to the cops, but not reporting it would be a crime.
If a tree falls in a forest does anyone hear it?