Law Case People Vs La Voie

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American society is not more violent because there is no legal duty to retreat from an assailant because it will help none criminals from being killed because in the case people v. La Voie the defendant was peacefully driving home when 4 other men in a car started to come after him the defendant pulled his car to the side of the road while the other 4 men followed. The defendant got out with his gun and the other 4 men said they were going to kill the defendant. There forth, the defendant felt scared and for his life so shot on of the men coming after him and he died. The court ruled that if your life feels threatened then you have the right to do whatever it takes to defend yourself "when a person has reasonable grounds for believing, and does in fact actually believe, that danger of his being killed, or of receiving great bodily harm it …show more content…

However, also in miller v state the court stated that if you have a means to apprehend the criminal you must do so you can only kill someone if you were in danger or if it was your last resort, that being said if the assailant didn’t have any weapons and you killed them saying your life was on the line that wouldn’t be a real reason kill them because they had no intention to kill you. With all this being said it is not an easy task to prove that you had the right to take someone else life if it was an easy task my answer for the question would change because everyone would get away with murder. The court must see that killing the assailant was your only option for life if there is any question that you could have got away or apprehended the assailant then it would have no leeway in

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