BLANCHARD, Okla. – Authorities don't plan to file charges against an Oklahoma woman who fatally shot a New Year's Eve intruder at her house while she had a 911 dispatcher on the phone, but the intruder's alleged accomplice has been charged in the death.
A 911 tape released to Oklahoma City media outlets Wednesday reveals that 18-year-old Sarah McKinley asked a Grady County dispatcher for permission to shoot the intruder. McKinley's 3-month-old son was with her when she shot Justin Shane Martin, 24, at her Blanchard mobile home.
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Should be legal anywhere. Maryland would want your butt for this...
WE need more brave souls like this: Crime rates would plummet if more crooks got shot while in the act of committing violent crimes.
As far as I'm concerned it is legal everywhere. I pity the fool who would try and bring charges over something like this.
I believe Maryland is a Castle Doctrine state, signed into law by Gov. O'Malley around the spring of 2010.
Maryland is a Castle Doctrine State which is also known as the "go ahead and make my day" law. This law not only includes your abode but covers anyplace that you have the assumption that you are safe. Your workplace or car for instance. See below.
Castle Doctrine (also known as a Castle Law or a Defense of Habitation Law) is an American legal doctrine arising from English common law[1] that designates one's place of residence (or, in some states, any place legally occupied, such as one's car or place of work) as a place in which one enjoys protection from illegal trespassing and violent attack. It then goes on to give a person the legal right to use deadly force to defend their place, and any other innocent persons legally inside it, from violent attack or an intrusion which may lead to violent attack. In a legal context, therefore, use of deadly force which actually results in death may be defended as justifiable homicide under the Castle Doctrine.
I know someone that shot and killed a man right across from the state police barracks on Dagsboro RD., behind a bar and it was ruled self defense by a judge.
He had to stand trial but the judge ruled in his favor. It was in the late 70's, since then the bar was closed long ago for several shootings there.
Never let someone try and do you harm if you have means to protect yourself. A large key positioned just right between your index and middle finger can easily poke out eyes, you can stab someone with a pen. Everyone should carry pepper spray these days.
The police may tell you not to resist because it's their job to protect and serve, however they may be too late if you're already dead.
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