From the linked article:Mansker claims Foley reached to his waist and Mansker believed Foley was pulling a gun. Mansker claims Foley then charged him. The San Diego County District Attorney backed Mansker’s claim that the shooting was legitimate when the DA declined to press charges against Mansker in December 2007. This incident occurred at Foley’s home, where Mansker had followed him. Even if the unarmed Foley had charged and reached to his waist, which the forensics may contradict, is there any way in the world the shooting would have been deemed self-defense if Mansker hadn’t had that daytime job as a cop? What sort of legal theory is at work here other than, hey, when a guy — in plain clothes, driving a private automobile on his own time, admittedly not showing a badge — follows you home, whips out a gun and starts shooting turns out to be an off-duty cop, real laws of self-defense may be inverted at the DA’s discretion? |
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Linda Morgan
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Sadly, I’ll be on the freeway up in LA when you’re on. Will it be recorded into an mp3 anywhere so I can listen to it later? |
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Bryan Pick
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