Friday 02 May 2014---Killer, who allegedly purposely left garage open and monitored CCTV cameras to plead not guilty with defence lawyers invoking state's 'castle doctrine' law
Truly a case of bad karma...but consistent with television shows like Cops, Deal With It and all sporting reality programs where the excitement for predators and audience is derived from trapping beings and humiliating them or worse. In this worst of cases, dispatching humans with seemingly no thought of consequence is a far too typical distortion of Castle Doctrine beyond the self-defense notion of an actual home invasion, and which was never intended to be a de facto hunting license complete with blind and decoys.
Markus Kaarma fired several shots from a shotgun into his darkened garage, allegedly without warning, in Missoula, Montana, early on Sunday, killing the teenager from Hamburg. It is unclear what Diren was doing in the garage.
Mr Kaarma, a 29-year-old firefighter, told police that he fired after he had seen a male in his garage through video camera he was monitoring, claiming his home had twice been hit by burglars.
According to a BBC report, it is alleged that on the night of the killing Mr Kaarma had deliberately left the garage door open and placed his partner’s purse in there to bait intruders. The couple then stayed up monitoring motion sensors and a video feed.
Castle Doctrine
Montana has a castle law with a “stand-your-ground” clause. Under the law, the use of deadly force is permissible to prevent felonies from being committed in one’s home or to protect against assault within one’s home.
The statute reads:
45-3-103. Use of force in defense of occupied structure. (1) A person is justified in the use of force or threat to use force against another when and to the extent that the person reasonably believes that the use of force is necessary to prevent or terminate the other person's unlawful entry into or attack upon an occupied structure.
(2) A person justified in the use of force pursuant to subsection (1) is justified in the use of force likely to cause death or serious bodily harm only if:
(a) the entry is made or attempted and the person reasonably believes that the force is necessary to prevent an assault upon the person or another then in the occupied structure; or
(b) the person reasonably believes that the force is necessary to prevent the commission of a forcible felony in the occupied structure.
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Link to charges (h/t Yucatan Man):
http://www.nbcmontana.com/...