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It’s not a felony when the law says you can do it.

You’re quibbling because they didn’t know if his trespassing amounted to burglary. Well, under Georgia law, entering a dwelling, even if vacant, is burglary.

O.C.G.A. 17-4-60 (2010)
17-4-60. Grounds for arrest

A private person may arrest an offender if the offense is committed in his presence or within his immediate knowledge. If the offense is a felony and the offender is escaping or attempting to escape, a private person may arrest him upon reasonable and probable grounds of suspicion.

GA Code § 16-7-1 (2014)

(b) A person commits the offense of burglary in the first degree when, without authority and with the intent to commit a felony or theft therein, he or she enters or remains within an occupied, unoccupied, or vacant dwelling house of another or any building, vehicle, railroad car, watercraft, aircraft, or other such structure designed for use as the dwelling of another. A person who commits the offense of burglary in the first degree shall be guilty of a felony

Look, evidently you may or may not have gone to some sort of law school decades ago. I really don't care. But I guarantee you I have spent more time in criminal court and dealt with more ADA's than you ever will. I have made no secret over the years what I do for a living. I've been a cop for 17 years and a detective for 6 of them.

There was no burglary. You cannot prove intent to commit a crime while inside the structure. It's literally impossible to prove. And again, the two fat idiots did not witness a felony and they had no immediate knowledge of a felony being committed by Arbery. So please, again, you're embarrassing yourself here. It's getting awkward that you keep copying and pasting legal passages that literally have zero to do with this case. I, for one, am very glad you decided to pursue a profession other than law. I hope you were successful at whatever that was.