The downsides of the castle doctrine

[Hammer99...]

I really wasn't trying to drift this topic. I was just trying to show how different Texas law is. My apologies to the OP...

[Heffay]

I really wasn't trying to drift this topic. I was just trying to show how different Texas law is. My apologies to the OP...

I have zero problem with thread drift. I consider it the natural evolution of discussion, as long as it's not a serious debate about a topic.

And since I posted this...

[tman]

+1 Joe Horn confronted two people committing felony robbery. I believe he shot them on his property after one of them advanced towards him. I'm not sure if the robbers in the Joe Horn incident were armed, but they had more than a thousand dollars worth of stolen property on them.

I believe it was theft or burglary, not robbery. Robbery is a PERSONAL crime involving the use, or threatened use, of force. The neighbor wasn't home to get robbed.

IIRC, TX law allows the use of deadly force to protect PROPERTY. In Horn's case, property of another.

[EAJuggalo]

It also is authorized to stop "Criminal mischief in the night time." I've seen another report where the dead guy was under the wife's car, the homeowner told him not to move and wait for police, the dead guy took off running.