[Rick Lee]

In most cases the shooter cannot have possibly known the criminal history of someone he ends up shooting in self-defense, as long as it's a stranger. So I can see why that might need to be excluded at trial. They need to examine the shooter's state of mind at the time, not how he felt even more justified when he later found out he had rid the Earth of a career criminal. In the MN case, the shooter had been a victim of those two burglars in the past, so he was well aware who he was shooting.

Not sure how I feel on this one. Home invaders should be killed, no question. And tempting someone to break into your house should be discouraged and it should also constitute some level of culpability on the shooter's part. But life in prison for shooting two home invaders sounds a little harsh. He should, however, face a sentence enhancement, for being so stupid as to record it all, then talk like a tough guy while shooting and then waiting a day to call the cops. Someday we need to criminalize being stupid.