Texas Court Acquits Man Who Shot Woman Dead For Refusing To Have Sex With Him

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9. I was on a grand jury once

where a man heard a commotion outside his house in the middle of the night. He looked out his window, and saw two men stealing his car.

He ran outside with his weapon (properly licensed) drawn, and confronted them. They identified themselves as repo men, and so he holstered his weapon and asked permission to remove his personals from the trunk. They acquiesced, he got his belongings, and let them leave with the vehicle.

The two repo men drove around the corner, called the police, and had this guy charged with menacing with a deadly weapon. We no-billed that one quickly. It's not menacing to draw on two people long enough to figure out why they are leaving with your car.

Thank goodness he didn't shoot them straight away like your example.