If you saw somene attacking your mother in the street and ran up & hit him with a bat, would you get arrested?

Question

If he was violently hitting her and you hit him with a bat and killed him, would you get arrested and charged for murder? I didnt do it, just curious.lol

Answer 1

self-defense in my opinion (even though it is not yourself being defended)

I'd let you walk...no one better hit my momma!

Answer 2

Where the heck do some of these people come up with there responses?? Are any of you guys cops???? You can not defend a third party by using a deadly weapon, i.e. a ball bat, if your trying to protect your mother from being punched.
Citizens uses of force are weighed on the same standard of reasonableness as are officers. You can not use deadly force to protect yourself from a simple assault. A closed fist is not a deadly weapon in and of itself. Your use of force must be reasonable. Did the person who had the bat try to use any lesser form of force before striking his mothers assailant?? Did they try telling the assailant to stop or give the assailiant sometype of warning that if they did not stop the assault that you would use the bat against them? Did they try using hands on to pull the suspect off of their mother? Or did they just sneak up behind the assailant and crack them with a ball bat?
If what you are describing is an accurate depiction of how the event occurred, then yes you can be arrested and charged for Murder, or some form of Manslaughter and will be found guilty.
Replace the use of the bat with the use of a handgun..This is directed to all who have answered this is self defense (what LE training do you have..Gez.) Can John Q Citizen just walk up behind someone and shoot them in the head because they are in a physical altercation? A bat and a gun are both deadly weapons ??? How would this change your response? For those of you that say this is self defense I would be curious to know what kind of LE experience you have and what state you are from.

Answer 3

If you were dumb enough to hang around waiting for the cop's to get there,probabily yes. Hit the sucker right between the eyes, grab mama by the hand and get the hell out of there. If you stick around to dot all the I's and cross all the T's, the DA will have you for lunch. Secondly,your name will be plastered all over the papers and that guy you clubbed with a bat probably will have a big family and a lot of criminal friends that will go the last yard to find you and give you some payback. Club the SOB,Keep your head down and run like hell.

Answer 4

Moral decay of society ??? You stupid person... The number 1 cause of death in America is smoking... The number 2 cause of death in america is drinking... Yet not 1 person in it's 5000 + year history has ever died from smoking weed. Yet you think it's bad because it's illegal... Why don't you use your own head for once.... Back in the early 1900s pot became illegal because they thought it made white women want to sleep with black men back when everyone was rasict towards blacks Now everyone whose old just knows it's illegal and listens to everything the goverent says like zombies or robots... Which ever you prefer... Weed has scientifically been proven that it does not damage your body... The worst thing it does is make people lazy... But that's the persons fault... People get addicted to the computer or tv and become couch potatoes and are very lazy... Is there a law towards tv and computers ??? Listen kid, isenyour pen head fr once... But all in all. Shut the fcuk up

Answer 5

Yes. but that doesn't necessarily mean you will be found guilty. Using an instrument to cause bodily injury or death is against the law. We have police to make those judgments for us. If I saw someone doing that to my mother, I am getting between them to allow my mother to escape and notify authorities without any regard to my personal safety. Because somebody harms another person, it doesn't give us the right to harm them. The wild west is gone and we now live in a society that protects us from deviant behavior. It isn't perfect but if we all try, it will get better.

Answer 6

No you would not be arrested, as long as you can show you were in fear for your life or your mothers life and the chance that this person could have taken away the bat and used it on you and your mother. Self-defense. I also live by this phrase,,,""I rather be judged by 12, than carried by 6""<,food for thought???

Answer 7

It really depends.

I'm not sure if you're from the UK or not. If you're from the UK then there are special defences to crimes - "Self Defence" being one of them.

Self-defence applies to protecting yourself and others from harm. If you are being attacked or you see someone who is being attacked, you're allowed to use actions in order to defend yourself or others. However, the force used must be reasonable (not excessive) to the threat faced at that particular time.

For example if someone hit your mum in the face and you ran up to them and stabbed them then the force isn't in proportion to the threat faced by your mum and so you'd be charged with the relevant offence.

Also, regardless of whether you acted in self-defence you'd still get arrested as the Officer who arrested you would be unaware of your actions. You'd be likely to get charged too and then it's up to you, the defence, to put your defence forward and then for the jury to decide on the verdict.

A successful defence usually results in total acquittal.

Answer 8

You may get arrested and detained, but it would take review of you circumstances by the DA to determine whether to press charges. If you could show that there was no other means to remove that person from you mother and evenif there was sometime mitigating circumstances like the fact it was your mother can sway their decsion.

Answer 9

the last thing that would cross their mind would be a louisville slugger. Your scenario definitely sounds like self defense however there is an old saying, I would rather be judged by 12 than carried by six and that applies to protecting my family and any other persons family.

Answer 10

Yes you would my cousin came home one day and found his mother getting beat up by her boyfriend. So he preceded to attack and beat him during this time he knocked the guy down and kicked him in the head which ended up killing the man. They sent my cousin to prison for involuntary manslaughter which is a lesser charge and he only served one year in prison. But he did go to prison.

Answer 11

yes you may get arrested. depends more on the facts of the situation. You had time to think about a course of action, and you should have called for help before attacking him.