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Example bad guy has wrecking ball hung right above you and a button to release it in one hand and says here I go I'm going to push the button and starts moving his other hand towards the button with finger out to push the button . You then shoot him before he pushes the button . However on the stand you say you shot him to stop him but you didn't think he'd really do it but just in case he did .... Maybe a bad example but my point is a situation where maybe some ignorant sole doesn't actually think they are about to die but in all actuality they are . Does it really matter what they think if everyone else thinks the opposite ? Isn't that where the reasonable person in there shoes comes in . Maybe the person about to be killed thought process is not reasonable . Maybe another bad example but I hear this from anti gun people or people that don't understand guns . Why didn't the cop just shoot him in the leg or the gun out of his hand . Those people generally would never think deadly force is warranted . Sometimes it is even if you don't think so . So why can't Potter think it's not necessary and in hind sight others say no mam it was justified you clearly were not seeing the whole picture at the time ?
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I'm not sure what you are arguing here? Is it a hypothetical that if she had tried to pass it off as a conscious decision to shoot that she would have gotten off? How can anyone predict the outcome of that? She, herself, never attempted to defend her actions. She confessed to accidentally shooting him. Repeatedly [edit: to clarify, she confessed to accidentally shooting him multiple times, NOT that she shot him multiple times]. What, exactly, do you expect a jury to do with that? |
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If you don't believe deadly force is necessary in a situation and you shoot them, that's a serious crime. It is not legal to shoot people if you don't believe that deadly force is immediately necessary to prevent a serious crime. Quote:
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I've said how I feel about the wrongness or the rightness of her actions . My questions are not to figure out a way to justify what she did . They are basically using her actions or this case as an example to ask the question , the question is not specifically about her if that makes sense . Making this only about your thoughts seems to indicate regardless of the situation or if you are actually justified . As long as you believed you are is all that matters . If that's not the case then why can't that hole thing work in reverse ? You don't think so but everyone else does ?
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If a 'reasonable man' determined that they were at risk of [some variation based on where of] great bodily harm or death then the use of lethal force was justified. I.E. Rittenhouse. I doubt any 'reasonable man' metric would convict his actions, and the jury agreed. But, in Potter's case, she threw away that standard by herself confessing that deadly force was not justified. How do you argue with a defendant that says they killed someone without justification? |
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To me, what you are offering is an exit strategy for shooting someone. "I didn't know the gun had live ammo in it when I pointed it at them and pulled the trigger!" "We were just playing russian roulette! I didn't know there was a live round in the gun" "Sure he was cheating with my wife, but I didn't know the gun I pointed at him could kill him, it only had blanks in it!" If you or I do those things, our lives come to an abrupt halt. I do not see why law enforcement should enjoy a separate tier of justice where they are forgiven if they make a mistake. [edit] Quote:
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It's not "her reasonableness" that's at issue it's "her reasonable belief" that deadly force was immediately necessary that's the focus here. She had the option of using deadly force but admitted that she chose not to. That is proof that she did not intend to use deadly force--that plus her admission that she didn't intend to use deadly force. If she didn't intend to use it, how could she have reasonably believed it was immediately necessary to use deadly force? Obviously she couldn't have and that means that a necessary criteria for justification does not exist. Quote:
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Reasonably believing that deadly force is immediatley necessary is NECESSARY for justification, but it is not sufficient for justification. In other words, if you don't reasonably believe that it is immediately necessary to use deadly force then it can't be justified regardless of the circumstances. But simply reasonably believing it is immediately necessary isn't enough. Then the circumstances of the situation must also fit the criteria in the law. A person uses deadly force. Situation 1. The person states or otherwise indicates by their actions that they did not believe that deadly force was immediately necessary. That is enough to prove that justification does not exist. There is no need to look at the circumstances, indeed, the circumstances become irrelevant to justification. Situation 2. The person states that they reasonably believed that deadly force was immediately necessary. In this case the circumstances of the situation must fit the criteria in the deadly force laws. If the circumstances do not fit, the reasonable belief of the person that deadly force was immediately necessary is irrelevant. So if EITHER the circumstances don't fit the criteria OR the person doesn't believe that deadly force is immediately necessary, justification does not exist. It is necessary that the person reasonably believes that deadly force is immediately necessary AND that the circumstances fit the criteria in the law for justification to exist.
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The smell, TRO and fighting may go to whether Potter herself believed that deadly force was necessary, a different element in the analysis. Unfortunately for Potter, her indication of what she was actually thinking was recorded and clear. It's a recurring theme in the thread that Potter must have been trained insufficiently; this appears offered as a mitigating factor in her guilt. We should not want a failure of training to serve as an effective defense to individual criminal culpability. That pressure would lead to less and less training by jurisdictions looking to economize, and those are the jurisdictions in which POs are going to be most in need of training.
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I don't know Potter I don't now her skills and capabilities. I know nothing about her chain of command.
I'm not commenting on any of those people. Please do not grab some nit you might find and spin a ball of yarn from it. There is an old sayng "Those who can'r DO, Teach. Those who can't Teach,write books " Seemed real,attending a university where the Profs wrote most of the required textbooks. It can also be true if you have an employee who is deficient in an area,assgn them the duty of teaching a class on the subject. The required immersion might sink in. Management can use "Instituted trainng" as a damage control and butt covering tactic. It can be an alternative to firing cronies. Don't get me wrong . Training is a good and essential thing. But I would not leap to conclusions upon reading the word "training" If you are reading the "training" track in the mud on the trail, it can mean deficiency as easily as expertise. |
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I have to say that many idiots sit on juries, and this was one of those cases.
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The trial is over, the verdict is in, and we're wasting bandwidth discussing what WE THINK was done or not done correctly. Unless you're a cop or someone else in the position where taser or gun is a choice, and you could make the wrong one, I don't see any lesson here applicable to regular citizens and our civil rights.
A person was killed due to what the court ruled was criminal negligence. The cop was convicted. Until there is an appeal, and/or something new, relevant to L&CR, this story is over
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