Years back my client was accosted by a little gansta with a record a mile long. Little gansta robbed him at gunpoint-took his money. Client went home and got his S&W 65 ( it was a pre lock pre MIM) and went looking for the t'ief. Found him and from about a half a block the little gansta pulled a fake gun on him-my guy took a snap shot and caught him between the eyes. (don't you hate luck?) Killed him deader than a mackrel.
My guy argued it was self defense pure and simple and wanted a trial. I convinced him that the odds were that if the jury bought the self defense argument and acquitted him in the shooting that they for sure would find him guilty of being a felon in possession of a stolen handgun. At the end of the day he plead no contest to manslaughter for a 20 year sentence and guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and got 15 years to run concurrent.
Down here they call that a "Two fer"
