Stand your ground, unless it's your spouse
October 16, 2014 6:09 AM Subscribe
South Carolina is a "stand your ground" state, where a person using deadly force against an attacker enjoys immunity from prosecution. Unless the attacker is their spouse. According to the relevant statute, when your attacker is a legal resident of your home, there can be no "presumption of reasonable fear of imminent peril."
This post was deleted for the following reason: There's a recent, open thread about domestic violence and the law. And terrible as story this is I feel a post on it could do with some fleshing out so as not to be a "here's a terrible thing that happened" outragefilter type post, sorry. -- goodnewsfortheinsane
and yet, as we discussed in a previous thread, not killing your abusive spouse will get you 20 years, if the prosecutor is to be believed:
She also had another option, one that Deen said he would not have prosecuted her for: “She should’ve cut his throat while he slept.”
posted by nadawi at 6:18 AM on October 16, 2014 [1 favorite]
She also had another option, one that Deen said he would not have prosecuted her for: “She should’ve cut his throat while he slept.”
posted by nadawi at 6:18 AM on October 16, 2014 [1 favorite]
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