Man Aquitted of first degree murder under "make my day" law

[jsalcedo]

Well the upshot of the whole thing is to not date girls who break into homes, carry brass knuckles, and hit sleeping people in the face with those brass knuckles.

She must be pretty hot for a guy to put up with that.

What do you bet they are back together now

 

[NineseveN]

He unloaded his gun after chasing people off with it and they threatened to return? Looks like we need a new condition of awareness. What's lower than white?

Condition, pink?

Or how about, 'condition brass'? <----ewwww, bad joke.

 

[Arethusa]

Jokes aside, I really do not see how this is first degree murder. You don't need a 'make my day' law (and it certainly is disturbing when bad action movies are being used to name our laws) for him to be acquitted solely on grounds that this was not premeditated. I can definitely see him being convicted of second.