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re: What is Louisiana law regarding shooting someone breaking into car in connected garage?
Posted on 5/28/24 at 4:19 pm to Mud_Bone
Posted on 5/28/24 at 4:19 pm to Mud_Bone
One thing I do know, if you do it...
1. Call 911 and report you were attacked in your garage (no details beyond that), defended yourself with a weapon, and you are now unloading the weapon and placing it on the garage floor and you will be waiting outside w/o the weapon.
2. Don't say another damn word. Nada. Just shake your head like you are in shock and freaked out even if inside you want to celebrate.
If you attempt to delay that will be an attempt to hide, and an attempt to hide the "crime" is going to be intent, which is guilt.
The responding officers will be asked to testify to your state of mind as well as pin you down on a statement very soon afterwards. Don't give them the statement, just give them the state of mind.
In Louisiana, the guy you just shot is probably kin to someone in the prosecutor's office or LEO.
1. Call 911 and report you were attacked in your garage (no details beyond that), defended yourself with a weapon, and you are now unloading the weapon and placing it on the garage floor and you will be waiting outside w/o the weapon.
2. Don't say another damn word. Nada. Just shake your head like you are in shock and freaked out even if inside you want to celebrate.
If you attempt to delay that will be an attempt to hide, and an attempt to hide the "crime" is going to be intent, which is guilt.
The responding officers will be asked to testify to your state of mind as well as pin you down on a statement very soon afterwards. Don't give them the statement, just give them the state of mind.
In Louisiana, the guy you just shot is probably kin to someone in the prosecutor's office or LEO.
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Posted on 5/28/24 at 4:20 pm to Mud_Bone
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Covered garage under same roof is considered part of house as far as I am concerned.
Unless you are in it, it’s not considered part of the home. Castle Doctrine does not apply.
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I not to shoot someone in the back, but what if I hear someone in my garage and confront them with a gun? What if I shoot the cocksucker?
You would be charged with a crime. Unless they are inside the walls of your house, you cannot confront with lethal force.
If this ever happens, shut the frick up and call a lawyer.
This post was edited on 5/28/24 at 4:21 pm
Posted on 5/28/24 at 4:21 pm to Mud_Bone
In Louisiana:
If the garage is a connected enclosed space to your home more than likely the castle doctrine would protect you. You have every right to protect yourself and loved ones in your home.
You don’t even have to be inside your home. Buddy of mine was staying with his mom after his dad died to help her get settled. Drove up in the driveway one night and a burglar was halfway in a window. He shot and injured the guy. No charges were filed because his mom was inside the home.
This post was edited on 5/28/24 at 4:23 pm
Posted on 5/28/24 at 4:22 pm to Mud_Bone
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What if I shoot the cocksucker?
hope you waited for him to finish first.
Posted on 5/28/24 at 4:23 pm to lsufan1971
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If the garage is a connected enclosed space to your home more than likely the castle doctrine would protect you. You have every right to protect yourself and loved ones in your home.
I think you have to be in the garage for Castle Doctrine to apply.
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You don’t even have to be inside your home. Buddy of mine was staying with his mom after his dad died to help her get settled. Drove up in the driveway one night and a burglar was halfway in a window. He shot and injured the guy. No charges were filed because his mom was inside the home.
Mom being inside makes this an okay shooting. If no one was inside, then you might have a different outcome.
Posted on 5/29/24 at 3:31 am to Mud_Bone
Make sure you are in a conservative run parish with conservative judges
Posted on 5/29/24 at 5:05 am to keakar
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It will all come down to if the prosecution wants to try the case, most DA’s will present the case to a Grand Jury, those liberal DA’s that want to prosecute will indict anyone, but a southern DA may see a self defense and half heartedly present the case to the grand jury which will not indict, at trial if it got that far will be if the defendant can prove in court that any reasonable person would feel their life is in danger, then it also rests with the judge and what defense is presented in court. A liberal judge may shutdown any self defense claims and led the jury to a conviction at any costs
Fixed again
Posted on 5/29/24 at 5:05 am to Loup
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Yeah, it kind of sucks that's how it is but you have to make decisions based on how things are, not how they should be.
Unfortunately true.
Posted on 5/29/24 at 5:20 am to Mud_Bone
Shot guns with Rick salt loads only…
Posted on 5/29/24 at 5:52 am to Mud_Bone
Louisiana needs stand your ground laws like Florida.
Posted on 5/29/24 at 6:03 am to Mud_Bone
The people saying “fear of great bodily harm and/or death” are correct but that is regardless of the venue. Anytime, anywhere in Louisiana you feel “imperiled” or your life is in jeopardy then deadly force is justified and legal.
I remember my business law professor at LaTech was a very good and well known highly regarded defense lawyer. He had just won a case against the state over a gunfight in a parking lot. You always have the right to defend yourself from injury/death wherever you are.
I remember my business law professor at LaTech was a very good and well known highly regarded defense lawyer. He had just won a case against the state over a gunfight in a parking lot. You always have the right to defend yourself from injury/death wherever you are.
Posted on 5/29/24 at 6:20 am to Mud_Bone
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if it had been my garage and I was home and heard them..... I know I would be armed
You always carry around your house? Maybe you should consider moving rather than the repercussions of shooting someone, even if they are a pos.
Posted on 5/29/24 at 6:28 am to I20goon
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In Louisiana, the guy you just shot is probably kin to someone in the prosecutor's office or LEO.
I don't think it's possible to be more wrong than this
Posted on 5/29/24 at 6:38 am to Mud_Bone
Judges like this racist bitch here will do everything she can to protect criminals and put white law abiding citizens in jail.
Eboni Johnson Rose
Eboni Johnson Rose
Posted on 5/29/24 at 6:46 am to Steadyhands
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You always carry around your house? Maybe you should consider moving rather than the repercussions of shooting someone
Always carry, in the house? nah. But most rooms have a firearm very close to hand. Outside the house, definitely.
Too old to give a shite about repercussions, these days we are just as likely to be hemmed up for not doing something and being passive as we are for actually doing something.
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