Re: Overheard on the scanner

On May 9, 12:43=A0am, Howard S Shubs <how...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> In article <ddfr-F4CC9E.09273907052...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> =A0David Friedman <d...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > In what states is it legal to use lethal force against someone who is
> > merely on your property--not inside your house--without your
permission?=

>
> Any place with a Castle Doctrine, something like 30 states, but more to
> the point, this has already been tested.
>
>
<http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/news/stories/2008/04/13/04132008wac
> homelessshooter.html>
>
> And there was a case a number of years ago where a guy was killed on
> Halloween when he trespassed on the wrong property. =A0Very sad story.
=A0=

> The law didn't do anything, as the property owner was within his rights.

The owner lost the civil case.

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-2280182.html
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=3D9D00E5DC133BF935A2575AC0A96=
2958260

 =93Yoshihiro Hattori's Parents Awarded $650,000 In Suit.

BATON ROUGE (LA) -- The parents of Yoshihiro Hattori, the Japanese
exchange student killed by a Louisiana homeowner, were awarded
$650,000 in damages and funeral costs last week.

Rodney Peairs, 31, shot and killed Hattori on Oct. 17, 1992, when
Hattori and a friend mistakenly rang Peairs' doorbell while looking
for a Halloween party in the area.

Judge Bill Brown, who heard the civil case without a jury, said there
was "no justification whatsoever" for the killing .=94

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I'm not going to search, but I seem to remember that Hattori,
apparently thinking the homeowner was a partyer roleplaying,
behaved in a way which led the homeowner and his wife to
think they were in danger.

Sad story.

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