Posted in castle doctrine, criminal law, education, property on December 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Because when you’re working with two other guys on a robbery, and your would-be victim shoots your friends, you’re gonna get charged with their murder:
Although Frank Castro, who turns 18 on Tuesday, did not shoot the teens, he still can be charged with their murders, officials say.
“If you are a member of the conspiracy, [...]
Posted in castle doctrine, ethics, free speech, politics, privacy, privilege, property on November 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some high-caliber reporting about Florida’s Castle Doctrineright here:
Whoops! There goes Harold! Just an accident!
Posted in castle doctrine on April 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You would think that people would figure out that Texas is just a bad place to go banging on doors in the middle of the night. Mr. Hinojosa did what any armed and reasonable person might do when confronted by armed intruders- he shot them. This is exactly the kind of result enabled by the [...]
Posted in castle doctrine, privilege, property on February 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Looks like the bill has been introduced, but they haven’t done anything with it yet.
Posted in castle doctrine, dissent, education, privilege, property, torts on January 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The intruders were allegedly trying to steal marijuana that the homeowner was growing:
Lt. Gary Trupe, coordinator for the Potter-Randall Special Crimes Unit, said Monday that the home was targeted because of marijuana plants that were being grown there.
Arcay and the roommate are now wanted by police for possession of 25 to 35 marijuana plants. The [...]
Posted in castle doctrine, criminal law, education, politics, privilege, property, torts, tagged castle doctrine, map, update on January 24, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I realize the insanity of trusting Wikipedia for any kind of exhaustive legal analysis. But they’ve got a great list, and the list (for the most part) links to the relevant statutes. If I was really going to be serious about this I’d take the time to look up state murder law for all 50 [...]
Posted in castle doctrine, criminal law, privilege, property, torts on January 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This one has a Joe Horn mention. I guess the lesson is, if you want to gun down random people in Texas, you have to claim that you felt threatened. It’s probably not enough to say you did it because they were stealing someone else’s stuff.
A Kingsland man Wednesday was indicted on charges of criminally [...]
