Report: Lexington shooting victim refused to get out of suspect's car

[jpak]

http://www.kentucky.com/2011/04/19/1711948/report-fatal-shooting-occurred.html

The victim of a fatal weekend shooting was killed after he got a ride from his accused killer and then refused to get out of the car, according to a police report.

Mike D. Rieder was charged with murder Sunday in the death of James R. Muzic, 29. The two apparently met at the Office Lounge bar on Eastland Parkway near New Circle Road on Saturday night.

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It was unclear whether Rieder has claimed that the shooting was self-defense. He declined to give an interview from the Fayette County jail, where he is being held without bond. A man who answered the door at Rieder's home declined to comment except to say the family was "confused" about what had happened.

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In Kentucky, automobiles are included under the "castle doctrine," a statute that allows people to defend themselves with deadly force from intruders or assault.

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[TheWraith]

1. More proof that you're full of it.

Someone was in an area covered by the Castle Doctrine, and they're still being charged with murder. I guess it's not a "license to slaughter" the way you keep claiming, eh?

[jpak]

2. The fact that the Castle Doctrine was even considered as a defense damns it

yup

[ProgressiveProfessor]

3. The defense can raise any defense it chooses...legitimate or not

[ManiacJoe]

4. Except that is was not considered as a defense.

Unless he was just looking for space filler, it is not obvious why the reporter included the comment in the article.

[TheWraith]

6. It wasn't. But even so, one misuse of law doesn't obliterate the law.

The fact that someone might claim justification doesn't change what the law actually is, any more than one case of prosecuting Medicare fraud is somehow proof that Medicare is a corrupt system of parasites. Drawing conclusions from one anecdote is silly enough; it's even worse when the anecdote itself shows the opposite of what you claim.

[Ian David]

5. The Castle Defense only works if you're ruggedly handsome.

[ManiacJoe]

7. And things go so well when Beckett hands him a gun!

:evilgrin:

[AtheistCrusader]

10. Worked better on Firefly, that's for sure.

[lawodevolution]

8. unrec for stupidity and thanks for showing us that castle doctrine doesn't get you off easy.

[oneshooter]

9. unrec, because its jpak.

[RSillsbee]

11. Yup Yup Yup NT