-——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...
Congratulations. In a thread full of inane statements, yours is the most inane so far. The number of shots is irrelevant. If you are threatened to the point where deadly force is necessary, then you shoot until the threat is stopped. Period. If that takes one shot or ten, it makes no legal difference. One shot can be too many if the shot is into a sleeping man, and ten can be perfectly fine if the meth-head is still moving towards you after the first nine.
If you are going to adjudicate this shooting based on how the number of shots makes you “feel,” please recuse yourself from ever serving on a jury, as you are not qualified...