The moral of the story is,if you have to shoot an intruder finish him.
Here is another reason people are supporting Trump.
$16,242 raised on gofundme.com so far.
The insurance company should pay the bills. Intoxication is a choice not an act of God and drunks should have no right Ina caseload this.
so there was no lawyer willing to work on this WITHOUT charging him $85K??
What California needs is a law that says the shot-up criminal can't file a civil suit if their shooting was justified. Nevada has that. Not California. Too bad there are overwhelming numbers of pro-criminal voters and politicians who would prevent such a proposition or bill from becoming law.
I would sue the homeowners insurance. protecting your house is exclusive to the owner of the house?
that’s ridiculous - your guests in your house have as much right to self defense.
The workaround is this: Shooter sues his parents (it's all discussed and agreed in advance) and parents file a claim with their own insurance for defense and indemnity. It's done like this in various contexts, though it sucks that it would be necessary.
The GoFundMe idea is good too. Now if the burglar can just somehow "disappear."
I pray nobody ever breaks into our house and that is just one reason.
Everyone in the family is armed with something and if we’re on our game whoever comes in will get hurt at least.
I don’t want people breaking in for all the obvious reasons but really don’t want the hassle of lawsuits amd media circuses.
Don’t even dial “9” until he’s bled out.
Dead burglars can’t sue. Just sayin.....
If I can’t use a defense of “ I was drunk, didn’t mean to shoot him, run him over with my car, grab that girl’s @ss, take a poke at that cop..., he should not be able to use it to justify breaking & entering.
Burden is not on the homeowner to know what is in the intruders mind.
Never has been. It is what the homeowner believes to be going on, and the responses he gets, if any, from the intruder.
Burden on the jackass to make sure it is the right house. If that was what actually was going on, to which I have doubt.
If not for the lawsuit, I’d feel sorry for a poor, drunk, moron getting shot when he didn’t even know he was in the wrong house (if that’s true, and I’m not confident it is). With the lawsuit, I wish he’d been killed, even if he really was just drunk. I despise frivolous lawsuits, and breaking into a home makes any subsequent lawsuit frivolous.
He should counter sue for trespassing, aggravation, making him fear for his life etc.
Know what’s crazy?
Also in Foster City this same thing almost happened to my friend: he was drunk and trying to get in my home and instead tried to break into my neighbor’s home, which was identical. They were condos. Understandable.
Years later in Houston a guy tried for several minutes to jiggle my apartment’s doorknob. I just stood there with my gun, looking thru the viewhole. He did not behave like a criminal, and expressed frustration that my door was not opening.
He thought it was HIS door.