re: #997 Targetpractice

Then again, the State needs to show how it happened. The standard for a self-defense jury instruction is “beyond reasonable doubt.” If reasonable doubt exists, then the jury cannot rule against self-defense.

You’re focused on the wrong element for your reasonable doubt. The state needs to show beyond reasonable doubt that the killing was due to depraved indifference (for the charges at hand, that is.)

I will ask again. What was the reasonable expectation of: get out of the truck after being advised not to do so, arm oneself, and pursue a suspected criminal into an unlighted area?