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Topic	Female cop enters wrong apartment, murders black man inside
XIII_rocks 09/07/18 4:45:58 PM #12:	Jakyl25 posted... Why would this be manslaughter and not 2nd-degree murder? I was about to say I guess we don't know the specific exact circumstances of how she fired the gun, but if it's the one that seems most obvious - she walked in, saw a guy in "her" apartment and shot him for "breaking in" - then...I mean, she still shot him on purpose. Does "I thought this was my apartment" serve as an adequate enough reason for her drawing a gun and firing it at a man and for this to be manslaughter rather than murder? A kind of imagined self-defence? --- Not to be confused with XIII_Stones. <cite>XIII_rocks posted [p:908304395] in Female cop... [t:76977554]...</cite> <quote><cite>Jakyl25 posted...</cite> <quote>Why would this be manslaughter and not 2nd-degree murder?</quote> I was about to say I guess we don't know the specific exact circumstances of how she fired the gun, but if it's the one that seems most obvious - she walked in, saw a guy in "her" apartment and shot him for "breaking in" - then...I mean, she still shot him on purpose. Does "I thought this was my apartment" serve as an adequate enough reason for her drawing a gun and firing it at a man and for this to be manslaughter rather than murder? A kind of imagined self-defence? --- Not to be confused with XIII_Stones.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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