Posted on 09/03/2014 5:00:22 PM PDT by Bon of Babble
A white homeowner who gunned down an unarmed 19-year-old black woman on his porch last year has been sentenced to at least 17 years in prison.
Theodore Wafer was convicted of second-degree murder in August for killing Renisha McBride outside his home in Dearborn Heights in Detroit, Michigan home in the early hours of November 2.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Well at least she won’t get wasted and drive again. Funny how nobody mentions that.
That’s why my husband has always said he’d hand the gun to me.
Besides, I’m a better shot than he is.
If she had opened the door it would have been just as legal is if she had been climbing through a window.
Screw her, she drove drunk and crashed her car, she could have killed an entire family. Karma dealt her justice, good riddance.
“If they make it in, you’ve got the Castle Doctrine in most states.”
Yeah. In Colorado, just wait until they enter and then they’re fair game. Period.
Naturally, you hope that never has to happen.
Pretty OBVIOUS what the moral of the story is: DO NOT drink and drive.
Ooops,I misread earlier.I thought it was "all *he* had to do".But even thinking about *her* having opened the door,if I was a juror hearing the case I think I'd want evidence of something more than her just having opened the door.For example,if she had opened the door and immediately fell down (because she was blind drunk) I don't think I would have appreciated her having been shot when she was lying in the doorway.
I’m glad my place is set up the way it is. I can look out my bedroom window and see my front door. I practically live here in the bedroom and if anyone knocks on the front door I can look out the window and see them from behind.
I even wired my porch light so a switch is right next to my window.
There was a very unfortunate case here several years ago where a drunk guy came home to the wrong house, kept trying the key, kept yelling, and pounding on the door, and was shot and killed. I believe that this case was not criminally pursued. Not that this should matter, but both people were white.
——If he’d been in Texas, he’d be reading this from his easy chair.——
I’m not so sure about that....
Shooting someone though your front screen door is a very weak “castle doctrine” position....
I think he would have been convicted as well... But gotten a shorter sentence....
It would have been a tough call for me, as I defer to the FACTS of a case, rather than the media hype.
...but in the end, it does appear that she was harmless, unlike Trevon or M. Brown, and she deserved to be treated that way. It still has to be tough, to have someone banging your door, but you really have to do two things in that case: Call 911, then get armed, but stand back until they get inside. Once inside, they are fair game.
Shooting someone outside is premature, unless they’re already firing inside (or are about to bust the door in).
“he shot someone who was dead?”
Better yet someone dead knocked on his door.
I’m in Texas. And I’d vote guilty too.
I think even Texans can look at the facts here and make the right call.
Yes but they don’t say it kills dead bugs!
..........and particularly in Travis County!
“Did I read once that Texas law allows one to use deadly force in situations that few,if any,other states allow?”
What I have heard is that in Texas you can use deadly force to defend the life of another person, not just yourself. But in thinking about this further I would think that might be justifiable anywhere. All I can say is the guy who told me this was a bona fide card carrying communist.
“If only one of the other homeowners whose houses she visited would have called 911, she would still be alive.”
Eh, who knows. She was a woman, so probably, but there was another guy who was banging on doors (I forget what his issue was, but his intent wasn’t criminal iirc) and some one called the cops.
The cops show up, the guy runs towards them, they shot him dead.
I’m sorry I don’t remember the details, but I’m pretty sure they shouldn’t have shot the guy, much less killed him.
The homeowner’s first mistake was living in Detroit. Other lapses in judgment followed.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.