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Originally Posted by glatt
You can Google "Yoshihiro Hattori" if you have forgotten, and want to see why these restrictions exist today.
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They are hardly that recent; the legal principles are much older than the Hattori case.
That said, many
justification statutes include a "reasonable belief" provision; if if it turns out that you were not in danger, your use of deadly force is viewed as justified if you reasonably beleived you were.
This is where the "judged by twelve vs. carried by six" decision comes into play. (c.f. the "naked drunk" case I cited in
another Cellar thread back in 2001)