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Originally Posted by Carl in Tampa
Did you guys miss the built in defense that buggyone included? Once the lady's head hit the pavement so hard that it was bruised, her defense became that she didn't know what she was doing.
I'll say it again. As cut and dried as a case may look, it's always up to the prosecutor's discretion and the opinion of one person on the jury.
Other posters are correct in saying that as a matter of law it is not permissible to shoot a fleeing suspect who poses no danger to you, unless you can articulate a reasonable belief that he may be an imminent physical danger to others.
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I caught that, but would not know how it would play out in the florida courts. My education is in Contract Law where every case opinion follows a logical conclusion as apposed to criminal law where nothing seems to follow right, wrong, logic, fairness etc.