Understood Shane
by letter of the law dude may very well be phouced.
But damn, hard to swallow. I can tell you I'll not shed a tear for the departed.
Point well taken. The homeowner may have been rightfully convicted, but on the other hand, little hard to argue the dumb [bleep] (burglar) didn't have it coming. You burg people's homes and you assume one helluva lot of risk---including the risk that one of those homes might be armed by somebody looking for an excuse to kill your punk burglar, dope-smoking ass.