Wilson said as Burgarello approached, Devine started to get up from the floor and said they were just sleeping. That's when the shooting began, she told police.
Some might argue that the "stand your ground" rule might not apply here and that the guy went a bit too far.
If he saw the two sleeping on the floor, and in such a situation wasn't in any danger had other options in which to deal with finding two people who were sleeping and had entered his home illegally.
Well, waking them up was certainly not unduly aggressive. If he woke them up and they were threatening to him, then he might have been justified, depending on the particulars of the law. If he just woke them up and started blasting away, then he should be culpable, but I doubt he did that.
Besides, what were the “other alternatives”? If he called the cops, they probably would have shot him and his dog, and either shot the couple or entered them in contention for couple of the year.
If I'm on the jury and you can't prove to me that the squatters were a threat to the shooter, then I'm voting guilty..........
Shudda called in the BLM.
Well, I shot a man in Reno........just to watch him die....
His mistake was leaving a witness to the shooting alive.
If this guy was an LEO, the city would have given him a months paid vacation. Plus a medal & promotion.
-——Devine was shot five times, including once in the head, an autopsy determined.———
Seems a bit of an overkill..../ S
Sort of gives the “Stand your ground” defense a bit of a problem....
SYG is a law for defending yourself not a license to shoot five rounds into someone and three into another person...
Sleeping after shooting meth? Sounds reasonable to me.
"Stand your ground" is not a synonym for "self defense". Self defense is self defense. "Stand your ground" refers to only one portion of self defense law, whether there is a duty to retreat in public. It does not apply in your home where the Castle Doctrine already removes such a duty.
It's getting a little tiresome for every alleged self defense case to be labeled as "Stand your ground".
Sounds like the Stand Your Ground is working, meaning you don’t get a free pass to off people that get in your way. I don’t know the details here, but if that’s the case, then the liberals have nothing to whine about.