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Yes. If I see 2 or more coming towards me and I see that one of them has a knife, I am not going to spend too much time deliberating within whether the other one is armed or not.

AndyC wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 1:24 pm

Tex1961 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 10:58 am Is that an existing law or just musings from Mr. Ayoob?

It's a legal doctrine used to show disparity of force (which is part of Jeopardy) when faced with a mob (let's call it 3 or more people, for the sake of the argument) so that someone in the group can't claim '* Well, I* wasn't doing nothing!' - apparently little-known but it does exist.

I believe that’s correct, I heard that Branca (spelling?) attorney that oljames links too say something to that effect too. With two or more it becomes a mob, so an act of one is considered as an act of another one too.
I think his example was if two people are holding you while third one is stabbing you, then the other two are just as guilty of murdering you. Just because they didn’t actually stab you doesn’t matter.