Murder or self-defense – that is the question

"Murder or self-defense – that is the question"

"MORA. A trial of great fundamental importance began in the Mora district court today."

"Is the man who shot and killed a high on drugs and violent man who attacked him in his home a killer?"

"Or should he be exonerated on grounds of self-defence?"

"of course, There are other possible outputs than these two, the legal world is often more complicated than a preamble in a tabloid is able to capture, but set on its tip, is this goal a matter of extremes."

"The one who shoots someone in the chest from close range with älgstudsare know how it can end. That prosecutor Johan Knies prosecutes for murder is seen in the light no weirdness."

"But in the prosecutor's opening statement in the trial was the complicating details clear."

"A man in middle age and tired of their mediejobb in Stockholm, sold tenant-owner's apartment with considerable profit and moved to the Valleys."

"Especially good, he appears not to have been for the last time in his life. For friends and family, he told me that he was persecuted by the people who did the burglary in his home."

"He feared that he would die, prepared a will and called the police a few days later and told me that the communists tried to assassinate him and that the family Bonnier prevented him to find the hidden message in the historical books."

"the Police transported the of easy for obvious reasons to the man to the Säter hospital. He was admitted, but was written out the day after by a doctor who considered that he would cope well if he did drugs."

"This tormented man began to suspect an odd-ball figure that wanders around in the village for the imaginary break-ins. He gave him a rod a few times."

"A day in the last year, he went home to his brother to kufen to make up. The brother was not at home, but he abused an inherent, threatened him with a knife and disappeared."

"a little later came the man who owns the house home. The inherent told skärrat what had happened. Suddenly they heard the sound of a motorcycle approaching. The attacker was on the way back."

"the home owner went down to the cellar, retrieved älgstudsaren, loaded, unsecured, and came up again. The man was inside the house, a scuffle ensued, a shot was."

" An accident, claim the defendants, who have the license for the weapon, is of good character and am working on kalkverk."

"Is this really murder? It should not be allowed to protect themselves against a psychotic, stoned (the autopsy revealed traces of hashish) and aggressive person who goes to the attack in one's home?"

"Not even the prosecutor is sure of his thing. He has put on the braces and belt", and claiming in an alternative claim, that it is involuntary manslaughter."

"Legally is the difference if the wilful or negligent killing. For a suspect, the difference can be a lifetime in prison."

"this Morning's oral submissions stökades away fast. Prosecutors Kniers picked up the weapon, a sporting of the brand Husqvarna, caliber 30-06. Let the judges keep in it."

"It is one thing to talk about a weapon and its characteristics. Another thing to feel its weight in his hand."

"In the other two rooms in Mora's little court, which opened in 1903, a court which, strangely enough, has survived all the disused häradsrätter and merged districts, went on the other objectives."

"Some rattfyllor, cruelty to animals and a figure charged with incitement to hatred after on Facebook have suggested that the attendees at a muslim conference locked in in a room filled with the nerve agent sarin."

"Later in the week should the accused be heard. He denies this completely and requires by attorney Anders Ericson to be acquitted."

"Will he be there? The law allows to the and with deadly force as self-defense. But only if no alternative exists to avert the attack."

"Was it really necessary to load the rifle? He could not content themselves with waving with it? Or in any case, let it be insecure?"

"the Issues that lagman Lars Tomth and the lay assessors shall take a position on is not easy. But I would neither be upset or surprised if the man is freed."

"Oddly enough, has this complicated case not attracted attention to talk about in the media. The local press, I saw no smoke today."

"At lunch, led the suspected killer out of the hall by two guards from the prison and Probation service. No handcuffs were needed. This is the Mora, not Stockholm."