Good or Bad Shooting?

[Jolly]

Does Castle Doctrine extend to your car?

https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/bond-set-at-42500-for-new-orleans-man-accused-of-shooting-teen-who-broke-into-his-car-in-st-roch/article_2c75fdea-bdf5-11ed-af37-6bc17a63efc4.html

[Mik]

I think castle doctrine applies to your property, period.

[jon-nyc]

Maybe if you were in the car.

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in Good or Bad Shooting?:

Maybe if you were in the car.

No shit. This is awkward...

Peters "sees someone breaking into his car and comes out of the house firing," prosecutor Michael Grey said at the bond setting Wednesday afternoon in Orleans Parish Magistrate Court, where Magistrate Commissioner Peter Hamilton III presided.

Police said juveniles in the Kia had been burglarizing a vehicle outside Peters' house. After the shooting, Peters went back into the house. The youths fled in the Kia, driven by the wounded 14-year-old, who crashed into a parked car about a block away in the 2200 block of St. Roch Avenue.

[Axtremus]

@Mik said in Good or Bad Shooting?:

I think castle doctrine applies to your property, period.

By your thinking, how much of a property would I have to own for me to get the benefit of the castle doctrine with regards to that property?

If the answer is "not much," that just might make the shares of hotel chains, restaurant chains, rental car chains, airlines, public transportation companies, REITs, etc. more appealing to some.

[Jolly]

A car is your property.

But...I think you would have to be in it for castle doctrine to apply. So the question morphs as to whether deadly force can be used to protect property?

[89th]

Personally, I’m fine if you shoot someone who is trying to steal your car. Legally, and logically, it’s not worth attempting to kill someone.

[Mik]

Me too. But you'd better be able to prove they were stealing or burglarizing it. I also think castle doctrine should definitely apply when you are in the car.

[Jolly]

In the cited case, there is no doubt the juvies were trying to steal the guy's car.

I think that's why you saw no attempted murder charges. etc.