“It looks like the defense is going to be ‘she had a gun’. “
The cop committed murder.
The fact the victim considered defending herself notwithstanding.
Murder.
Murder.
I wasted a lot of time on the Amber Guyger threads trying to acquaint people with this simple and long standing principle of law.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/mens_rea
A lot of people simply refused to grasp the idea, and wasted my time trying to reason with them.
I'm not going to do that again.
"Murder" is incorrect, because it requires criminal intent. Reckless homicide, or reckless manslaughter, or some such is more accurate. Texas law is written in a peculiar way to ignore the distinctions between accidental or reckless killing and criminal intent in killing.
True. The cop was of the opinion that a person can’t walk around their own home with a firearm without fear of being seen and shot from outside her home? It’s outrageous.