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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7331941" data-attributes="member: 4937">That is the purpose of this thread.  Find everything I can reasonably charge the PC's with that a prosecutor might make stick.I could have really got them for this, but every time they shot at the guy's back, they luckily missed.   Since all the bullet wounds are from the front, they should be able to argue successfully that they had a reasonable belief that their life was threatened and that deadly force was reasonable in this instance.   The fact that one of them is severely wounded by a bludgeoning weapon means that they could not have reasonably retreated.   I could charge them with attempted murder, but I don't think I can make a very strong case of it.Nope, one of them is a medical practitioner.   And he's presumably going to argue that had he not intervened medically, the person would have died from their wounds (which is in fact probably true).  Indeed, since he's a far better doctor than most doctors, one of the things that the nurses would have been forced to testify to the detective investigating this, is that he did a really bang up job keeping the guy alive.I'm definitely considering the kidnapping charge, but the kidnapping in question was taking an unconscious, psychotic person to the hospital.  I think that any decent lawyer would argue that the PC's lacked intent to prevent the person in question from being liberated, that they certainly did not secret the person or attempt to prevent them from being found, and were acting according to what a reasonable person might construe as the injured unconscious person's best interest.  In fact, I foresee the entire kidnapping charge is one that might risk being made a laughing stock in front of a jury, and get the whole case thrown out.</blockquote>

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