...with his hammer!Thor nails it.
What's the intent? Use of a Taser CAN be forcible felony depending on the intent. So, the correct answer to this, and most questions like it, is, "It depends."
If a stranger walks up and tries to tase you, how would that not qualify?What's the intent? Use of a Taser CAN be forcible felony depending on the intent. So, the correct answer to this, and most questions like it, is, "It depends."
It could.If a stranger walks up and tries to tase you, how would that not qualify?
SITUATION: I'm out and about and a criminal attempts to shoot me with a taser.
Am I legally allowed to use my carry pistol to shoot the attacker and stop the attack?
Or am I compelled by law to just let them shoot me with the taser under the theory that it's a "non lethal" weapon?
SITUATION: I'm out and about and a criminal attempts to shoot me with a taser.
Am I legally allowed to use my carry pistol to shoot the attacker and stop the attack?
Or am I compelled by law to just let them shoot me with the taser under the theory that it's a "non lethal" weapon?
Thanks. That covers what I was thinking about the situation. You could definitely cause bodily harm with a taser.It could.
My thoughts regarding a posed question about how the threat of incapacitation can lead to death.
My response from Facebook
"Incapacitation CAN justify lethal force. (I can only speak for Indiana law) It is about intent. Example. Person A can rob Person B with a Taser. That is a forcible felony. Under Indiana IC 35-31.5-2-138 Forcible Felony =a felony that involves the use or threat of force against a human being, OR in which there is imminent danger of BODILY INJURY to a human being. IC 35-31.5-2.292 defines "Bodily injury" Sec. 29. "Bodily injury" means any impairment of physical condition, including physical pain. Under IC 35-41-3-2 (c) A person is justified in using reasonable force on any other person to protect the person or a third person from what the person reasonably believes to be the imminent use of unlawful force. IC 35-41-3-3 (b) goes one to state; A law enforcement is justified in using deadly force if the officer has probable cause to believe that deadly force is necessary to prevent the commission of a FORCIBLE FELONY or to affect an arrest of a person who the officer has probable cause to believe poses a threat of serious bodily injury to the officer or third party."
Thanks. That covers what I was thinking about the situation. You could definitely cause bodily harm with a taser.
So, wait... If I walk up to a random person and shoot them with a tazer "just for fun" and not with any intent to really hurt them (beyond possibly killing them with the tazer) and not intending to do anything else to them (it was just for fun), this ISN'T a forcible felony?
Sounds an awful lot like that "sucker punch" game punks were playing in some places. Walk up an nail a person for giggles. How is a tazer different? Both are using force to commit a felony.