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First Aid after an encounter
bullit:
You are under no legal obligation to render aid, nor "arrest" said subject but certainly would call police and ensure your safety and other innocents. Remember, justifiable homicide exists when the immediate and otherwise unavoidable risk of death or grave bodily harm to you or to innocents occurs
unfy:
--- Quote from: bullit on August 27, 2011, 07:19:30 PM ---You are under no legal obligation to render aid, nor "arrest" said subject but certainly would call police and ensure your safety and other innocents. Remember, justifiable homicide exists when the immediate and otherwise unavoidable risk of death or grave bodily harm to you or to innocents occurs
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From a legal stand point this is prolly the most interesting answer.
If you use force but see fit to render aid... was the force necessary in the first place ???
Still a curious question. For own safety and such I'd venture 911/police would be best bet.... and keep the loved ones secure.
Appreciate the insight guys.
Dan W:
Assuming the use of deadly force is justified in any case, I never intend to do anything more than stop the threat.
Once that threat has been positively ended, then I do not think I would be justified in doing anything that increased the likelihood of the aggressor's death.
Homicide would never be my goal, although it may result from actions I was forced to take to stop the threat.
I do wonder how the Good Samaritan laws that protect non professionals from liability when rendering aid to an injured party might be subverted in a case where the same person that was forced to cause the injuries attempts to prevent further trauma or death
bkoenig:
Dan makes a good point - you never "shoot to kill". You stop the threat. That may mean the bad guy is killed, or it may not. Once the bad guy is no longer a threat you cannot legally continue to use force. That's what the pharmacist in Oklahoma did, and that's why he landed in jail.
omaharj:
I've gone over this in my mind a couple of times and decided it would be a "case by case" situation.
First off, I may be incapable of turning my compassion switch back on. I'd like to think I could,but when the adrenaline hits and the blood's boiling,I don't know.
If someone is shot through the shoulder or thigh,I'd like to think if there was zero threat I would try to maintain life.
The grey area is what about a lung shot? Long ago, I was trained to treat a sucking chest wound by sealing the opening with non breathable material. What if I do this and the BG drowns in his own blood? After the fact, I find out what I did was a negative and contributed further to his/her death? I KNOW I don't want some lawsuit attorney asking me about that on the stand!!! I'm sure there are other wounds that I could possibly do more harm than good by use of first aid... RJ.... I'd like an attorney's view on this
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