Originally Posted by
Loose Chain
In some states including Florida and I think Texas, deadly force can be used upon YOUR fear for your life. The concept is that you have a right to protect yourself and threatening behavior, if YOU feel you are threatened to the point you must defend yourself they should not have placed you in that position. The burden is then to prove otherwise upon the law.
Careful; this is an incorrect statement of the law. Your fear of bodily harm must be both
genuine and
reasonable -- that is that you genuinely believed it necessary to use the level of force used, and that a reasonable person in similar circumstances would act the same.