The case hinged on this:

"Montana Shooting Sports Association President Gary Marbut said those laws were not in question during the Kaarma trial. Neither, he added, was the "Castle Doctrine" concept that a person is entitled to use lethal force in self-defense.

But a legal change that Marbut supported in the 2009 Legislature did get tested and come through with a good result, he said. That was a new law that required the prosecution to prove someone claiming self-defense was in fact guilty, instead of making the defendant prove innocence.

�That�s the standard that applied to the Kaarma trial, and the prosecution was able to meet that burden,� Marbut said."

http://missoulian.com/news/local/gu...85cb983-cbbc-5986-b336-8f4f5b401513.html

It's a fairly well known fact a lot of Missoula HS students go into garages in hopes of finding booze, which was apparently the German kids motivation.

Teenage kids do stupid and irresponsible things that don't deserve what is essentially an execution. If that's not true, we'd all have been executed by age 17...

“Perfection is Achieved Not When There Is Nothing More to Add, But When There Is Nothing Left to Take Away” Antoine de Saint-Exupery