re: The Truth About Ahmaud Arbery

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You don’t have to witness it in Georgia. We’ve been over this and you’ve made great strides, let’s not regress.

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Mcmichaels had no direct or immediate knowledge of a felony taking place.
His own description of events in the police reports were that he saw someone running, and knew about recent break ins so he decided to confront him.
So your cute little quibble about immediate vs in person is irrelevant, because he didnt have knowledge of any ongoing crime.

No it’s the job of the finder of law to interpret the law and the finder of fact to determine if the fact fit that interpretation .

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You haven’t established what the law means. I’m the only one between the two of us who has cited a case. And the interpretation clearly doesn’t support your contention. Feel free to cite a counter example.

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Are there any cases involving attacking someone with a gun, and getting shot while trying to take it from them?

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Even if you believe the McMichaels had every right to attempt a citizen's arrest (had immediate knowledge, etc), that still does not give them the right to commit aggravated assault in the process of attempting the arrest.

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That’s a dodge.

Like I said, the everyday definition of "immediate" and "knowledge" IS the law on that very specific question, as there's no statute that provides a legal definition of the "immediate knowledge". So yes, the finder of fact must take the everyday definition of the term and apply it to the facts.

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that still does not give them the right to commit aggravated assault in the process of attempting the arrest.

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True, did they though? The truck blocks the most important second or two of the encounter.

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How was this a citizen's arrest? Is chasing after someone and saying you want them to stop and talk considered a "citizen's arrest"? I'm no legal scholar but that doesn't seem like enough to be called a citizen's arrest to me. Have the McMichaels' attorneys come out and said they were planning on using citizen's arrest as part of their defense?

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What other defense would you recommend? That's basically all they have.

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That’s a dodge.

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How so?

I'm not recommending a defense. I'm just asking how "citizen's arrest" all of a sudden became the buzz term here. Like I said, I'm no legal scholar. I just skimmed the "citizen's arrest" page on Wikipedia.