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Kerbouchard, what about the following scenario... On some random gun board, you state your intention to fire a coup de grace shot to an assailant's head should you ever have to deploy and fire your weapon against an attacker. You carry a pistol in .45 ACP. Weeks or months later, you legitimately have to actually fire your weapon in self defense. You fire two quick shots, intending to hit center of chest. Your first one goes a little lower than you had intended because you fired before completing your draw, wounding your attacker in the upper abdomen/solar plexus, arguably taking him out of the fight then and there. Your followup shot, right on the heels of the first one, goes a little high due to the recoil of the first shot, striking the assailant in the head, killing him instantly.

Now, first off, you're a better shot than I am! But that aside, even though the shooting was righteous, couldn't your previous words in which you stated your intention to administer a coup de grace shot to the head be used to poison the case against you? I agree that it could not be admitted necessarily as evidence, but I wonder if there isn't some way that a zealous prosecuting attorney couldn't work it in there somehow - even though the two events, your previous writing, and the shooting, are completely unrelated.

Just curious...