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Byron David Smith was a 65 year old retired security engineering officer with the US State Department.
He was residing in Little Falls, Minnesota in 2012 when his home had been broken into half a dozen times.
Eventually, Byron had enough of these routine break-ins and set up security systems, including four different security cameras set up around his property.
Some of the things stolen from Byron include but are not limited to:
Thousands of dollars in cash.
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3,000$ camera
His metals and ribbons from the war of vietnam.
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His father's P.O.W wristwatch.
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On the day of thanksgiving, 2012, Byron Smith parked his truck away from his home, giving the appearance of an empty house.
He then withdrew to his basement with a rifle and a .22 caliber handgun and laid in wait for the theives.
Approximately 1 hour later, 17 year old Nicholas Brady, and his 18 year old cousin Halie Kifer begin to case the home.
Nicholas eventually enters the home by shattering a window which can be heard in the full length recording.
After some meandering upstairs, Nicholas descends the basement stairs, and is shot three times by Byron Smith, after shooting the teenager, Byron can be heard uttering a rather callous remark to the deceased victim: "You're dead."
Byron can then be heard dragging Nicholas's deceased body into a workshop room at the bottom of the staircase.
10 minutes later, the voice of Halie Kifer is heard calling out the name of her cousin: "Nick?"
She then begins to descend the basement stairs. Byron fires 1 shot at Halie, causing her to go tumbling down the stairs.
His rifle then jams, and once again Byron can be heard taunting the half dead duo: "Oh, sorry, did i do that?"
Halie can be heard screaming and saying: "Im sorry!" before Byron takes out his .22 revolver and shoots the teenager 4 times in the chest. As he is shooting the teen, he is again taunting them, saying: "You're dying."
He then can be heard dragging Halies body in to the same workshop where her cousin is. Byron realises that Halie is still breathing, to which he responds by placing the revolver directly under her chin and pulling the trigger.
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Stupid kids fucked around and found out. Raise your children well and this won’t happen. Glad both pieces of shit got killed. It’s a shame the man went to prison for this. Seems kind of unfair considering they broke into his home. At that point castle doctrine should have covered his ass since he no longer had a legal duty to retreat. Not sure how this resulted on a conviction although I suspect maybe it had something to do with failing to report the shooting and moving the bodies around.
They died because they were dumb and thought they could just break into an American home and pillage like it’s Europe or something. This is America, you commie fäggots. If you wanted society to respect and value your life you should have respected the lives of others. Can’t do that? Good, because now “you’re dead” lol
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You don't seem to understand Castle Doctrine. It is not a license to kill and be judge, jury, and executioner on your property.
It is a right to defend your property. He was probably in the clear until he executed her with that last shot.
That last shot is murder, a much worse crime than B&E.
Most of society agrees. That's why he's a convicted murderer now.
You do realize Europe has less crime right?
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You are the one that doesn’t seem to understand what Castle Doctrine is. For starters, in most states you are not allowed to use deadly force to defend property, whether it’s in your house or not.
Castle Doctrine basically means you don’t have a duty to retreat when in your own residence and can use deadly force to protect your life (not necessarily your property although some states allow that).
Stop making shit up dude. Castle Doctrine is not about defending property.
His mistakes were:
Not calling 911 immediately after the shooting
Recording himself, which was later used against him to establish intent (the bulk of his conviction was based on this)
He had every right to use deadly force and kill them, and they were serial criminals/drug addicts and the world is better off without them anyway. He shouldn’t have recorded himself and he should have called 911 right away. He was convicted because he effectively lured criminals to his property with the intention to kill them. In my book if you fall for a trap like that I’m ok with you getting shot.
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You are allowed to use deadly force, yes. Had he just shot them both in the head and killed them outright he might not have wound up in jail. But castle doctrine absolutely does not give you the right to execute someone who is already incapacitated. That's why he's in jail for the rest of his life. He's a murderer.
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Well, I didn’t say Castle Doctrine allowed you to kill a non-threat. To be clear, Castle Doctrine doesn’t even protect you if you kill someone guilty of nothing but trespassing. But I didn’t say what you are suggesting I said, you are being dishonest.
Let me be even clearer:
The people that got shot were drug addicts who were known thieves. They were tied to other burglaries around the area. They were not good people or anyone who deserves our concern or attention even. Anyone killing them would be providing their community with free community service. We don’t even need to factor in the fact that the guy was a war hero and clearly someone who did actually deserve our concern and attention.
The guy that did this tremendous act of community service could have gotten away with it, covered by Castle Doctrine, but he fucked up in the ways I outlined above. The jury didn’t really make a mistake -they did in fact follow the law-, but that doesn’t mean an injustice wasn’t perpetrated by incarcerating an otherwise decent man for technically luring two subhuman pieces of shit and killing them.
He shouldn’t have recorded himself, he should have called 911 immediately but he was 100% right in mag dumping on those pieces of shit and it’s a damn shame he is in prison over them.
Is that clear enough, fäggot??
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That's nice.
People use "property" to refer to their personal residence all the time. That's how I was using it. Nice TED talk though.
The jury, judge, and prosecutors disagree, proving you completely wrong.
This is what I mean by "you don't understand Castle Doctrine"
You literally don't, you can say whatever you like, but if you think you understand the law better than a judge, jury, and prosecutors, you are an idiot.
Think whatever you like, try this and society will throw your psycho ass in prison for the rest of your life.
This guy thought he understood Castle Doctrine too. He didn’t. You don't either.
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