Part of the continuing disparity between the rich and the poor. The state is too poor to successfully take on the massive legal departments of the wealthy and powerful, but they can damn sure ruin the lives of average people with legal fees.
What you're really about is making self-defense such a life-destroying process that people don't bother, they just huddle in the corner and beg for mercy because, let's face it, in your legal world that the preferable option.
In other words, the home-defender's life is ruined completely and utterly whether he shoots or not, because either the state or the criminal will smash his body and destroy whatever modest savings the home-defender has.
Wonderful world you want to live in.
Anyway, to the links in your post... first off, the prosecutor states that even with duty to retreat, it would have been pretty difficult to get a conviction.
Doesn't mean he wouldn't bring it to trial, of course.. public pressure can make that happen even with a virtually zero chance of success. And as stated above, trials cost $$$.
But it looks like Morrison stood up without saying anything and extended his hand towards the homeowner. According to the wife, the husband yelled three warnings before firing the shot.
And that room is tiny... less than 12x8 feet. Hell, the bedrooom that i'm in now is about that big, and I wound be very nervous holding somebody at gunpoint at this close a distance.
And let's not forget that Morrison wasn't exactly an angel:
[div class=excerpt style=background:#AFEEEE]9 Mr. Morrison likely had several reasons for running from the police on the night of March 3,2012' Not only did
he not want to receive an underage drinking ticket, but he was likely aware that he had two pending criminal cases
in Washington County and a conãition of the bond in those cases was that he maintain absolute sobriety. He also
had pendiñg criminal cases in Milwaukee County and Dane County. In the Dane County case, a condition of his
bond was that he not consume alcohol. He was likely aware that if he was caught by the police with alcohol in his
system, he would have been in violation of the bonds in his pending criminal cases, and he would likely have been
charged with the crime of Bail jumping for violating a condition of his bond.
It looks clean to me... and I have to hit the hay. 
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