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Message: <blockquote data-quote="touc" data-source="post: 7337937" data-attributes="member: 19270">So I happen to prosecute in real life. Don't take this as legal advice by the way for anyone who might in real life get with a group of armed mercenaries and detain psychotic individuals so as to deliver them to hospitals with multiple bullet holes. First, you've probably answered your own question.  Yep, assuming your game mirrors modern U.S., justification and self-defense are complete (albeit rare) defenses to assault.  Your fact pattern suggests there's not another side to this story to cause a prosecutor to consider charges. I don't know what type of game you're running, so if you've got a corrupt version of modern-age gaming going on, I suppose you could have unlawful charges filed and have the players fight that angle (but if it's corrupt, they're going to lose, right?) Personally I'm not sure everyone wants to play an episode of Law and Order (corrupt authoritarian unit). Pretty typical. If you're modern U.S., it's up to 24 hours in most places until charges have to be filed or the person let go. And the police should be suspicious. Every day they're inundated with B.S. stories about how events played out. A guy showing up with bullet holes screams problems. As oddball as it sounds, justified kidnapping to save a man's life isn't going to be a crime. We don't prosecute people for trying to do the right thing. As to failing to report a crime, that might be indicative of a guilty conscience for some and not its own crime, but as you've described, they're making their way to the hospital where, by default, it'll be reported. Is there more prior involvement with police than just this? I can understand the police perspective. No one wants a gun battle in their town. If they're diligent, they're going to investigate how this got started (why the players are mixed up with this guy). If the PCs are dodgy enough, they might look like some kind of organized crime themselves (typical parties don't have full-time jobs and go around packing small armories, not exactly the modern-day image of respectable).Anyhoo, hope this helps.</blockquote>

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