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Tree Cutting Dispute Leads to Murder Charges in Florida

JonathanTurley

The laws have produced perverse results as in the controversial case of Tom Horn in Texas. There is an allowance in torts for mistaken self-defense. There was an equally baffling acquittal of a lawyer who shot an elderly farmer armed only with half of a broomstick used to guide his bull. In the case of Courvoisier v.

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Oklahoma Man Shots Unarmed Woman in the Back After She Tears Down His Nazi Flag

JonathanTurley

I teach these cases in my torts class and they raise many of the same issues. The laws have produced perverse results as in the infamous case of Tom Horn in Texas. Feaster (an Air Force veteran) said that he was ready with his AR-15 rifle after being warned by a neighbor of a “plot” by “antifa activists.”

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