Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote:
(...)
> I'm still amazed that this country can deliver such a heavy sentence in
> a case where nobody was injured or killed.
>
> But there's on the same site another one even more amazing in my opinion :
> http://www.wftv.com/news/4811007/detail.html
>
> So it's OK for an off-duty sheriff to shoot down a naked unarmed
> intruder with his service gun ? It seems the Florida version of
> self-defense law is extremely different of what it is elsewhere.

IANAL but I guess it's not too different from my country. How does it
work in France? If a naked intruder invades a gendarme's apartment and
_struggles_ with him (instead of, say, surrendering or running), what
will he do? Hug the invader and make sweet love to him?

Rafael Caetano