Candle light vigil for....nope, sorry, thanks for playing.

I'm not "losing sleep" over this, myself, but when you kill people who are no longer a threat to you, it's murder, and you go to prison.

Yeah. I said that. Multiple times in fact.

Not a single person is arguing the legal aspects of this other than the posters who can't stop feeling sympathy for this woman who broke into a house and assaulted an elderly man.

Don't worry, I think what the guy did was wrong on both a judicial and an ethical basis.

Some of you guys seem to think it's a shame he'll end up in prison.

I feel sympathy for anyone who is killed unnecessarily. I feel sympathy for the old man for being robbed and assaulted, too. It is, in fact, possible to do both!

Don't be silly. Some of the people here can't do two things at the same time. The world is way too complex for them so they need to oversimplify.

I feel sympathy for the old man while also agreeing that he should spend time in jail.

"Bonk bonk! On the head! Bonk bonk"

How's that G?

jump right in with the judgements on people. I guess disagreeing with you makes everybody else stupid. Welcome to WF you will fit right in.

It is a shame, but maybe not for the reason you suppose I think so. It's a shame that he chose to respond inappropriately, and the results of his inappropriate choice are therefore also a shame.

That is true. When looking at situations like this, we need to remember something I've said thousands of times. Everyone thinks they know and understand the law. Unfortunately, only a tiny percentage of people actually do understand the law.

That said, this will go to trial, but I'd wager 50/50 that the guy walks. Why? Because I've seen it happen before. 30 year old meth head breaks into house of 80 year old man. 30 year old meth head assaults 80 year old man. 80 year old man retrieves gun. 30 year old meth head tries to beat a hasty retreat. 80 year old man shoots 30 year old meth head in the back and by random chance severs spinal column just as 30 year old meth head reaches the street (about 50-60 feet from front door).

You'll simply have to trust me on the finer details, but this case was a clear cut example. The 80 year old man was arrested for Murder and tried. The jury voted 12-0 to acquit because the Defense Attorney did his job and painted the murderer as a frail grandfather figure that feared his attacker would return at a later date.

Relax, I surely didn't mean everybody who disagrees with me.
Why so passive-aggressive?

*sigh*

Men are so over-emotional. (OMG, that was satire. Don't shoot me.)

*sigh* another one who presumes to be oh so misunderstood..

I love the "men are so" reference especially as you bristled earlier when asking if there was sexual discrimination here..

I'm glad you saw what I did there.

They're not new.

You're gonna be so surprised.

We'll see.

Almost nothing surprises me.

Meh. The new kids are probably Tex and Ancalagon trying to be funny.

That explains the feminine personas.

Baba with new meds.

Oops.

There's a very wide gap between "I wouldn't be sorry if you were dead" and "it's okay to kill you in cold blood."

Cass

In anti gun LA County? I'd say he would fry, but we got rid of capital punishment last week. Lucky him.

Hmmm......I've had a couple of family members survive bullet wounds with no long term physical or psychological damage, so I'll take my chances
with the bullets versus risk the statistically dire outcome of the shacking up.

So the jury pretty much came to the conclusion I did on the current incident. Any criminal who physically assaults you has the ability and motivation to bring future deadly intent. It was a jury of his "peers" so maybe they were all 80 year old trigger happy types.
But I'm guessing not because the prosecution and defense can weed out potential jurors who bring the crazy, senile, prejudice, or other such tendencies.
Smart money says he walks since this couple had been robbing/terrorizing other people too. Pretty much nation-wide people are getting fed up with violent
criminals running rampant and showing their ass and nothing being done about it.

Ok, so now this changes a lot. When I first read about this, I did feel that shooting her in the back was wrong since she was running from him. But now, seeing that this wasn't the first time these two attacked him that changes what I feel. I could see myself feeling scared that they would come back again, and that the next time they would go beyond a beating. So yeah, I can see and do side with him now. At the end of the day the preggo got what she deserved, and hopefully her accomplice ends up being charged with murder because she died during the commission of a crime he was involved in.

This is California we are talking about.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/25/justice/california-slain-burglar-pregnant/

CNN is reporting the lady was not pregnant.