Posted on 01/14/2015 1:13:05 PM PST by Monitor
The mother of Bo Morrison, who was killed by a Slinger man when Morrison hid in the man's house while fleeing from an underage drinking party, has filed a lawsuit against the man and his insurance company.
Washington County District Attorney Mark Bensen declined to charge the homeowner, Adam Kind, with a crime in the March 2012 incident, finding Kind acted in self-defense.
The incident prompted numerous protests about "the castle doctrine," adopted by legislators the previous year, but Bensen said Kind would have been cleared even without the law's extra presumptions in favor of residents using deadly force in their homes against intruder.
The wrongful death lawsuit, filed in Milwaukee County Circuit Court, also includes claims of battery, negligence, pain and suffering, and loss of companionship.
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Drunk and immoral is a dangerous combination.
You will hear their defenders cry about how they were such gentle people and you will look at the battered remains of their victims and not understand.
How long before the ‘Just Us Brothers’ show up.
This issue will be one hell of test for the Castle Doctrine here in Wisconsin. Seems the home owner needed to “fear for his life” when he shot that kid.
Filing of a suit does not make a party right.
Tough for the kid, but the killing was justified.
The prosecutor already decided to charge which means that the case was clear.
Had nothing to do with castle doctrine by the way.
Was a simple case of drunk punk doing a home invasion and home owner defending himself.
This case is just drunk punk's neglectful parental unit trying to make some money off of drunk punk's death.
It’s called “life.”
Lawsuit tests Wisconsin’s “Castle Law”.
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