Lawsuits
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Re: Lawsuits
Such suits don't go far in Texas and thus lawyers are not anxious to take the cases on contingency which it the main source of junk suits.
That said I'm only aware of one suit following a legal shooting, and that was a very high profile shooting in Houston of a Japanese student who was engaging in harassment of home owners on Halloween some years ago... he beat on the wrong door and got capped... grand jury no billed IIRC or maybe the DA dropped the case.
The liberal media beat the drum hard on this one and a suit was filed... and IIRC the family did win some sort of judgement.
FWIW
Chuck
That said I'm only aware of one suit following a legal shooting, and that was a very high profile shooting in Houston of a Japanese student who was engaging in harassment of home owners on Halloween some years ago... he beat on the wrong door and got capped... grand jury no billed IIRC or maybe the DA dropped the case.
The liberal media beat the drum hard on this one and a suit was filed... and IIRC the family did win some sort of judgement.
FWIW
Chuck
gfdoldfart wrote:Does anyone know of any specific cases where someone used justified deadly force and was still sued by the deceased's family and actually lost the lawsuit? Thanks for your help.
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It was high profile case but it was in Louisiana. Does this sound like what you're referring to?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshihiro_Hattori
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshihiro_Hattori
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