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"This is why you use a shotgun and shoot to kill if someone breaks into your house."

Then his family sues for wrongful death and wants even more. We need tort reform. Any judge should throw this out and make the plaintiff pay for every penny of the defendants legals fees, no matter how much they cost.

[ol' hoghead]

CIVIL PRACTICE & REMEDIES CODE

CHAPTER 83. USE OF DEADLY FORCE IN DEFENSE OF PERSON


§ 83.001. AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE. It is an affirmative
defense to a civil action for damages for personal injury or death
that the defendant, at the time the cause of action arose, was
justified in using deadly force under Section 9.32, Penal Code,
against a person who at the time of the use of force was committing
an offense of unlawful entry in the habitation of the defendant.

Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 235, § 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.

Texas law.

ol' hoghead