I have no formal legal training, but as I understand it, theft is taking someone else's property while robbery is taking property FROM someone.koine2002 wrote:I've though of that provision for justified use of deadly force. The question for me is if the purse snatcher was committing robbery or theft. If the latter, it wasn't at nighttime.rvsullivan wrote:She has since turned herself in the local law enforcement, no charges filed yet.
Wouldn't this cover the situation though:
(B) to prevent the other who is fleeing immediately after committing burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, or theft during the nighttime from escaping with the property; and
(3) he reasonably believes that:
(A) the land or property cannot be protected or recovered by any other means; or
(B) the use of force other than deadly force to protect or recover the land or property would expose the actor or another to a substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury.
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