Quote Originally Posted by Gaffer View Post
It's not the legal system that's screwed up here, it's the damn prosecutor charging someone for defending their family. I've seen to many of these cases where prosecutors want to prosecute everybody for anything they can.

He didn't take the law into his own hands, that's just attorney speak for he didn't really do anything wrong but we're going to charge him anyway.

He should plead temporary insanity.
Of course, it's a huge money maker. They can size up the defendant before deciding how much money to extort. The prosecutor can say: "I will drop the charges in exchange for court costs" Of course the "court costs" will be loaded with all kinds of fees and can approach $1,000.