Not knowing all of the details of your incident, it is hard to make a call on justifiable or not. However, recommending anyone do something illegal is not appropriate and also against forum rules.maltz99 wrote:yeah well when your on the hot seat for jail time for a strong felony that youre innocent of you tend to listen to your lawyer right away when he said you should voluntarily surrender your CHL to the prosecutor... i still get so mad at the whole thing. All it does is teach someone to not call 911 when you use your gun even when justified. Buy a throw down and make sure nobody or nothing sees what you did.... heck, even the cop said it was a good shoot and a year later i have to deal with this. This guy was a Houston firefighter and lost his career over what he did too (DWI and on anti depressants). His fiance is the one who had the charges laid on me. It cost me 8 grand to walk away as i did and would have cost another 8K to go to trial... Wish i had the money to have gone to trial!
If this happened when and where I think it did, in Harris county in 2006, then even with a good shoot, you were more than likely caught up in the wrath of a Prosecutor (Chuck Rosenthal) who did not like CHL's and would go out of his way to make their life miserable if he had the chance. Add that to a lawyer who wanted to let you take the 'easy way out' on surrendering your license vs. trying to fight it (which would have probably cost you at least twice what you paid him) and ran the risk of felony conviction, then you got caught in a bad deal if your shoot was truly justified.
Bottom line, we that carry under authority of CHL have to make the determination of if we are justified to shoot or not. Only we can make that decision at the time of the event. My rule is, if I, my family or another is not in current clear imminent danger of serious bodily injury or death, then the gun will stay holstered and the 911 call will be made to deal with the situation and I will be making sure to distance myself or others from the potential threat.