“Just this year, Ohio joined many other states in requiring prosecutors to prove a homeowner did not act in self-defense”.
Your honor, the young men started toward me simultaneously and I was overwhelmed with fear...because I knew they were crazy or on some kind of dope making them crazy. Otherwise, they would not be in my garage.
Or, if they were in a car...
One of them turned to me rapidly, and I knew they were crazy (for the above reasons) and I thought I saw a gun in his hand.
Mr. Prosecutor prove that’s not what happened.
And if he just opened fire while they were sitting in the car as the story implies? What then?
I do not and never in my 70+ years have ever had any thing in my garage that is worth killing in one for stealing it. If it was a detached garage, he should have armed himself and called the police. He will pay a lawyer more than the garage and all its contents just to stay out of jail and that is if he is lucky.
Besides, I would not want to have the deaths of 3 people on my conscience for the rest of my life.