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- From: rboudrie@chpc.org (Rob Boudrie)
- Subject: Re: Re: 4 Q's: Deadly Self-Defense Against Rape
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.191306.8805@chpc.org>
- Organization: Center For High Perf. Computing of WPI; Marlboro Ma
- References: <1992Nov10.220009.19754@midway.uchicago.edu> <2380053@iftccu.boeing.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 19:13:06 GMT
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- >officer, investigating officer and prosecutor. He now spends quite a
- ^^^^^^^^^^
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- He's not a lawyer (though he probably knows mroe about criminal law
- that most JD's). He acts as a prosecutor under a NH law which allows
- "police prosecuters" under certain circumstances.
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- >bit of time as an expert witness in self defense cases. As far as I
- >know he has never lost a case that he assisted in. Based largely on
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- He lost the case of NY vs. Frank Magdalani (sp?) - the "Ferrari Killer"
- convicted of using his licensed Colt Detective Special to shoot a
- club weilding assailant. (Magdalani screwed up handling of the
- aftermath - feeling the scene; admitting in a preliminary hearing
- that he did not realize (at the time he pulled the trigger) that the
- club placed him in imminent fear of death (the judge therefore ruled info
- about the lethality of the club inadmissable since it was not part of the
- defendant's mindset at the time of the shooting). Manny Kappleson,
- another defense expert wittness, blames the conviction in part on
- Magdalani's "seeking out" of his assailant (whom he had earlier been
- involved in some sort of minor traffic accident with).).
-
- As far as I know, no student from his LFI-I course on the proper
- use of lethal force has been convictred of any wrongdoing for a
- self defense shooting.
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- rob b.
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