@upthecreekyetagain wrote:
The court accepted that OP thought it was an intruder in the bathroom - that's why the decision was not one of murder.
Indeed. And 5 yrs is a reasonable term for manslaughter in these cirs.
But your presumption that some of us would want a person who shot an actual intruder, who was armed and not alone, jailed for the same term or longer is unreasonable as the two situations are not comparable. One involved perceived menace (at best), the other actual. One involved an innocent unarmed bystander getting killed, the other would involve the death of an armed intruder.
