11-18-2004, 07:07 PM
Nicodemus Phaulkon,Oct 3 2004, 03:06 PM Wrote:Unfortunately, said response (and precedence in the courts) would have saddled you with criminal charges and a short stint in the local lock-up. All part of that lovely "appropriate response" codicil that binds the hands of citizen and police officer alike.
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Not in New Hampshire! Here the law reads something like "if a reasonable person would believe his person or property is in danger then he has the right to use deadly force" notice it doesn't say anything about mortal danger.
There was a case several years ago in Nashua N.H. where a kid (about 14 years old) reached into an open window and retrieved a gym bag that he had forgotten at his friends house minuets earlier. The father shot him dead on the sidewalk. He was brought to court and found to be within his rights to use deadly force.
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