On Friday 11 January 2002 04:00 pm, Jim Choate wrote:
I'll be happy to let you talk to my lawyer (he used to be an Asst. Attorney General) and you can call APD directly if you'd like. They DO include burglary with respect to using deadly force. In fact, in say a case like somebody breaking into your car and stealing CD's, to be legally protected you MUST see them with your property, simple 'belief' is not enough. Of course there is nothing to stop you from planting between the shooting and the arrival of your local LEA.
The following statute is the one that says you have to retreat unless you are at home. I am a Texas Department of Public Safety certified Concealed Handgun License instructor.
Big fucking deal.
I don't need or want to talk to your attorney. But you should at least read and try to understand the statutes that you link to and make reference to. The big fucking deal is I have attended four of DPS's intructor classes where their attorneys and instructors explain the use of force laws to us in the manner they want them passed on to the public. I do not pass on uninformed opinions on topics I am not qualified to comment on. David Neilson