Castle Doctrine in TN
WREG:
State lawmakers want to broaden civil liability protections for private citizens who hurt or kill someone in self-defense.
Multiple bills circulating in the Tennessee General Assembly are touting the ‘Castle Doctrine.’ The legislation’s language says it would “…provide immunity from civil liability for a person who uses lawful force in defense of self, others or property…” In short, a private citizen could not be sued by an attacker or the attacker’s family if the attacker is hurt or killed by the citizen’s lawful act of self-defense.
March 22nd, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Well that makes sense. It would be absurd to hold a person liable for using self-defense. The person liable is the attacker.
March 29th, 2007 at 10:09 am
The system is so out of whack that the criminals seem to have more rights, or at least loopholes, then the victims themselves. It is utterly ridiculous that a criminal, and/or their family, in the act of a felony can sue somebody for protecting themselves, their family, and there home/belongings?
The way I see it the more the criminals have to fear from the legal laws and rights of a citizen’s use of self-defense the better off we will all be.
/tg