Teen Charged with Attempted Homicide for Stabbing : WFMZ-TV 69News

annonymous wrote:

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Carmella was not at no bar..shes a liar if she was at a bar how could she make the 911 call uhh duh shes a liar!!

How would you know if she was at the bar or not? Were you there?

the law does away with an earlier requirement that a person attacked in a public place must retreat if possible. Now, that same person, in the law’s words,“has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground and meet force with force, including deadly force.” The law also forbids the arrest, detention or prosecution of the people covered by the law, and it prohibits civil suits against them.

Self-defensive is allowed when one fears being assaulted with consequences of serious harm or death.
The level of response must match the threat, not exceed it.
The person about to take defensive steps has a duty to warn if it would seem to do any good.
One has the duty to retreat from assault if possible.
Use force, especially deadly force, only as a last resort.
If a “victim” uses excessive force they become the aggressor.
Force becomes excessive when it exceeds that needed to assure one’s own safety
The more you know about self-defense the more responsible you have to be in its application

DEFENSE, SELF-DEFENSE - A defense to certain criminal charges involving force (e.g. murder).

Use of force is justified when a person reasonably believes that it is necessary for the defense of oneself or another against the immediate use of unlawful force. However, a person must use no more force than appears reasonably necessary in the circumstances.

Force likely to cause death or great bodily harm is justified in self-defense only if a person reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent death or great bodily harm.

The Right To Protect One's Person And Property From Injury.

1st. A man may defend himself and even commit a homicide for the prevention of any forcible and atrocious crime, which if completed would amount to a felony; and of course under the like circumstances, mayhem, wounding and battery would be excusable at common law. A man may repel force by force in defence of his person, property or habitation, against any one who manifests, intends, attempts, or endeavors, by violence or surprise, to commit a forcible felony, such as murder, rape, robbery, arson, burglary and the like. In these cases he is not required to retreat, but he may resist and even pursue his adversary, until he has secured himself from all danger.

2d. A man may defend himself when no felony has been threatened or attempted: 1. When the assailant attempts to beat another and there is no mutual combat, such as where one meets another and attempts to commit or does commit an assault and battery on him, the person attacked may defend himself, and; 2. An attempt to strike another, when sufficiently near so that that there is danger, the person assailed may strike first, and is not required to wait until he has been struck.

When there is a mutual combat upon a sudden quarrel both parties are the aggressors, and if in the fight one is killed it will be manslaughter at least, unless the survivor can prove two things: 1st. That before the mortal stroke was given be had refused any further combat, and had retreated as far as he could with safety; and 2d. That he killed his adversary from necessity, to avoid his own destruction.

Self-defense, lethal force:

The standard for use of deadly force is, predictably, higher. The general criminal law allows for the use of deadly force anytime a faultless victim reasonably believes that unlawful force which will cause death or grievous bodily harm is about to be used on him. Again, Pennsylvania law is generally consistent with this standard.

hmmm thats the self defense law...nothing about being below the wasit in there..and thats from a law book..so get your stuff straight thank youuu!=]

Jen wrote:

15 kids went to the buskirks residents,with pipes 2by 4's and all kind of weapons.sammy had every right to defend himself in this matter 15 people we are talkin about.They went there with weapons to do harm...period

15 kids couldn't fit in a jeep....think about it...and with 2x4's get real. The knife...there is such a thing as throwing it in the woods...a quarry....someone else taking it...
They must be that bad on Green Street if the neighbors want to sign petitions to get the Buskirks out of Green Street.
And CRPD aren't babysitters....The parents should be controlling there children...not CRPD