Back when I was taking a legal studies class in high school, we would always make the joke that "everything crazy happened (at least law wise) in Texas." The number of odd Supreme Court decisions we read about from that state baffled me, and most of them involved guns. The crazy thing about them is the number of people who found legal justification to shoot other people, and some how get off scott-free.
However, some of this Texas-crazy has decided to migrate to other parts of the country. In september, a man named Dan Fredenberg decided he was going to try and find his wife, who was having a romantic fling with Brice Harper. When Fredenberg went to enter the garage of Harper's house, Harper shot him three times and left him to bleed out.
While this may look like a straight case for manslaughter, it is in fact under a new law called the Castle Law, allowing homeowners more power to protect themselves in their own homes, but arguably allows them to get away with killing others at the same time.
The idea behind this is absurd, for most places already have a self-defense clause within the law in order to stop innocent people from being convicted of serious crimes. But a blanket protection clause like this one has the propensity to be abused, and in this case Harper was not even charged by the state, so a jury did not even get to look at the case to see if the law applied.
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