Does anyone have any good links to look at that feature cases where lethal self-defense was utilized? Specifically, I'm trying to see for myself whether or not anyone has actually done it and not lost their livelihoods in the civil cases that follow.
I asked it in another thread, but it was off-topic: A pharmacist by the name of Jerome Ersland shot a kid during a robbery. Two kids came in with ski masks on, so he pulled his weapon and shot one in the head. He next gave chase after the second one and, when he didn't get him, returned to the pharmacy, pulled a Judge out of a drawer, and fired a few shots into the already-down offender.
The family on the news screamed that they had a good kid, and he never would have anything like this, etc. Discussions with others have led me to agree that he went way too far when he came back and fired more rounds into an already-disabled BG.
So: If he had just left him alone after the first shot and called the police, do you think he would be acquitted of criminal charges? And are there any circumstances that make it so that a civil case can't be brought against you?
