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[Jackrabbit]

This does not seem to be a clever law.

[Leafsnail]

Either that or I'm thinking way too hard about how to get away with murder.

[Aqizzar]

Where it'll become a problem is when you pretty much inevitably wind up in court.  It's amazingly hard to lie convincingly over time, especially over something as weighty as killing a person.  They'll ask all kinds of questions about how you knew each other, and take careful note of how you respond.  Prosecutors are professional dicks.

[Jackrabbit]

Don't crack.

[Phmcw]

I don't believe there's any state in the US where it's not legal to kill someone who breaks into your house, and there are some that extend it to "are on your land at night".

Now I understand why your thief are so violent. This law is utterly idiotic.
It only encourage murder.

[Vester]

Wait, can't you just find someone, kill them, drag them onto your property and say it's self defence?

If the Tru Crime shows are any indication, they'll find your semen and blood all over the area, and reenact the murder and transportation proving that the corpse had to have been manhandled into the position you claimed it was in.

...

I really don't want to know why your semen is all over the area.

[Sir Pseudonymous]

I don't believe there's any state in the US where it's not legal to kill someone who breaks into your house, and there are some that extend it to "are on your land at night".

Now I understand why your thief are so violent. This law is utterly idiotic.
It only encourage murder.

If someone breaks into your house while you're there, that is a declaration of hostile intent, and thus killing them is self defense. As for shooting someone on your property if it's night... well, that's texas for you. A state where lethal force is an acceptable response to someone taking a swing at you.

[Aqizzar]

I really don't want to know why your semen is all over the area.

Weirdly, it never comes up in the CSI-type shows, because apparently people would freak the fuck out if anyone mentioned sexual content in a show that features dead hookers and graphic autopsies as once-an-episode plotpoints.  But American TV is packed with whole channels dedicated to documenting true crime stories, and almost inevitably they find semen everywhere.  Which in the words of Dave Chappelle, is pretty damning evidence, because you had to be at the crime scene for at least two or three minutes.

[Jackrabbit]

What if you brought it along in a jar?

Aha! You can never know.

[Earthquake Damage]

If the Tru Crime shows are any indication, they'll find your semen and blood all over the area, and reenact the murder and transportation proving that the corpse had to have been manhandled into the position you claimed it was in.

I don't want to know why they'd find this at the scene.

[Grakelin]

Aqizzar: There's semen splattered all over the place in CSI, especially in the earlier seasons before they had run out of murder ideas that allowed the killer the opportunity to rape the victim or their corpse. They made the blue semen light pretty mainstream, remember?

[Aqizzar]

Aqizzar: There's semen splattered all over the place in CSI, especially in the earlier seasons before they had run out of murder ideas that allowed the killer the opportunity to rape the victim or their corpse. They made the blue semen light pretty mainstream, remember?

I shouldn't have to mention that I don't watch CSI, and was basing my assumption on everything else I know about American censorship.  But yeah, blue-light semen effect.  Hint - if you ever want to sleep again, don't do that in your home, or a hotel room.

[Grakelin]

TV Crime Dramas, at least the ones that stay on the air, aren't heavily regulated. I'm actually surprised that CSI airs so close to prime time.

Criminal Minds is better, though.

[Forumsdwarf]

Here's a legal gray area to ponder:

What if you've built a booby-trap that can only be activated by deliberate trigger?  Could you successfully argue in court that because the triggering mechanism required human interaction and intent it makes the booby-trap a weapon for purposes of self-defense law?

Like you're trapped in the bedroom and the bad guy is breaking down the door and you push the button that makes the spikes come up out of the floor ... lawyers will call it "The Dwarf Fortress Defense" ...

[Kogan Loloklam]

Here's a legal gray area to ponder:

What if you've built a booby-trap that can only be activated by deliberate trigger?  Could you successfully argue in court that because the triggering mechanism required human interaction and intent it makes the booby-trap a weapon for purposes of self-defense law?

Like you're trapped in the bedroom and the bad guy is breaking down the door and you push the button that makes the spikes come up out of the floor ... lawyers will call it "The Dwarf Fortress Defense" ...

In colorado, yes. If the Booby trap is controlled by a human, it is legal.

But it has to fit in the make my day law (which means in your home either committing a criminal act, or you have reason to suspect he might be)

And there IS no court, unless they can prove it doesn't fit under the law.

Not all states have this law. Iowa doesn't.