GuyRelford
Master
I've received some requests for the next "legal scenario," so here we go:
You have a valid Indiana LTCH. You and your wife have just finished attending a movie at the Circle Center movie theater in downtown Indianapolis. You're walking to your car - which is in a parking garage about 4 blocks from the mall. As you're walking past a particularly dark alley, you hear the words, "give me your money or you're gonna ****'ing die." You look down the alley and can't see much - it's just too dark.
Then you see three dark shapes running toward you - just shadows, really. But you realize that two of those shapes appear to have pistols in their hands. You draw your handgun from a holster and fire four shots - two at each of the shapes. They both go down. The third individual is no longer visible.
You call 911 from your cell phone and report that you were just the victim of an attempted robbery and you defended yourself, out of necessity. You wait for law enforcement to arrive.
While you're waiting, a terrified teenager appears near you, screaming that you just shot his friends - who were just having fun in the alley with squirt guns, "pretending to be gangsters." The cops and EMTs arrive and confirm that two 15 year-olds are dead, holding plastic squirt guns in their hands.
Will you be convicted of a crime?
Guy
You have a valid Indiana LTCH. You and your wife have just finished attending a movie at the Circle Center movie theater in downtown Indianapolis. You're walking to your car - which is in a parking garage about 4 blocks from the mall. As you're walking past a particularly dark alley, you hear the words, "give me your money or you're gonna ****'ing die." You look down the alley and can't see much - it's just too dark.
Then you see three dark shapes running toward you - just shadows, really. But you realize that two of those shapes appear to have pistols in their hands. You draw your handgun from a holster and fire four shots - two at each of the shapes. They both go down. The third individual is no longer visible.
You call 911 from your cell phone and report that you were just the victim of an attempted robbery and you defended yourself, out of necessity. You wait for law enforcement to arrive.
While you're waiting, a terrified teenager appears near you, screaming that you just shot his friends - who were just having fun in the alley with squirt guns, "pretending to be gangsters." The cops and EMTs arrive and confirm that two 15 year-olds are dead, holding plastic squirt guns in their hands.
Will you be convicted of a crime?
Guy