It depends on if the state has self-defense laws. In the mid-90s a friend of mine got caught up in Connecticut
A woman came at her with a gun, so she picked up a knife and the woman said I'm going to kill you and then I'm going to kill your kids...
So my friend stabbed that bitch in the heart. She brought a knife to a gunfight and won!
The prosecutor fought like hell to get her jailed for life and since Connecticut didn't have self-defense laws she did six and a half years. The prosecutor said she should have run
Fucking RUN...from a GUN
It was, sadly, Laresse Harvey’s arrest on murder charges that proved to be her salvation. After killing another woman two years ago, Harvey has taken every educational, vocational and life-sk…
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A Superior Court judge in Hartford Friday praised Harvey for her accomplishments, then sentenced the New Britain woman to 10 years behind bars, the maximum penalty under the reduced charge of which she was convicted.
A jury found Harvey guilty of second-degree manslaughter. Judge Raymond R. Norko said Friday that he believed the jury, aware of Harvey's accomplishments at the Niantic prison for women, had given her a break by convicting her of a charge far less serious than murder.