If they come home and discover a “contractor” burglarizing their house this way and the “contractor” happens to be shot during the resulting altercation what is the legality?
If they use deadly force on a brazen intruder do they get arrested? Convicted?
“If they come home and discover a “contractor” burglarizing their house this way and the “contractor” happens to be shot during the resulting altercation what is the legality?”
Well, in Colorado, if you believe they are acting in a threatening manner, you pretty much can shoot them dead as long as they are in your house. I would imagine it wouldn’t come to that though if the owner is armed. If it was me and I was armed, I would hold them at gunpoint, explain the castle doctrine to them while they were being held, call 911, and then press charges for B&E and burglary as soon ass the police arrived.
These people didn’t have that option though since the B&E was done while they were out of state.
That's an optimal outcome!
Trash is removed from the gene pool.
Then bank is sued for inconvenience and home owner's emotional distress at having been driven to commit homicide. Lifetime of psychiatric counseling, dontcha know.