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Originally Posted by Rastoff
No self-defense that ends in a death, or even just use of deadly force, will be clear cut. There are always mitigating circumstances. That is the question the jury will have to answer; was it justified.
Always. For every real case we can find where someone was found justified, we can probably find another case in a different jurisdiction, same circumstances, where they were found guilty.
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I think there are plenty of SD scenarios that would be indisputable in court. Violent, armed attack on your person where you sustain a serious injury, yeah that one will go pretty smoothly. The ones where you can not prove imminent death or injury, like running out in front of a moving car & shooting the driver, not so much.