It does. He was reasonably believed to be the burglar that had been plaguing the neighborhood. Citizens are permitted to detain for the police those reasonably believed to be burglars, and citizens may be armed while doing so. If you are a burglar, you should expect to be confronted by armed citizens. Or at least that is the case in any sane society.
Name the state in which the laws apply as you stated....
OK, Georgia (before they changed the law as a result of this case.)
Two years ago, Georgia law allowed any citizen to stop at gunpoint any other citizen whom they might suspect was guilty of a crime at some date in the past???????
Felony? Misdemeanor? Vague suspicion? Sure and certain knowledge? Observation?
None of that mattered?
People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.
