Originally Posted by
Dchiefransom
Alot of it depends on the DA. Here in California, if you shot a fleeing driver that had just run over your ride partner, you'd likely be charged. A man in Vallejo, Ca shot a man fleeing a felony at his mother's house in the back, and was not charged, with the DA saying that deadly force is allowed against fleeing felons. It can go either way.
I was trying to stick with the motorist scenario and not someone's household being violated. Though we did have a motorist run a stop sign, jump the curb, crash though a solid wooden fence, traverse a 50 foot lawn, crash through the house front window, missed the sleeping owner's head, laying on the front room couch, by mere inches and crashed though the back wall of the front room.
Fortunately for the motorist, the homeowner didn't own a firearm.
