[speeder]

Saying that you were in fear for your life and had to shoot someone means nothing by itself in the eyes of the law. A reasonable person would have to have been in fear for their life. That's why he was arrested and is being held on a no-bail murder charge.

And he's a retired police captain with a clean record in the city where it happened. If anyone would get the benefit of the doubt from the local authorities, it would be him.

On top of that, this happened in Florida. One of those weird states in the southern U.S. with very lenient laws regarding shooting someone in self-defense. Where you can shoot someone in the back and not get charged with murder in some cases.

Yet still, on this internet forum we have members who look at this as a clear case of self-defense based on the facts presented so far. Some of you guys are so far out in right field that you're not even in the game.