Legal Notes

Read the title of this note again. Read it slowly. Memorize it. Tattoo it on your eyelids if necessary. I don’t care what he has done. More importantly, the law does not care what he has done. He may be a drug dealing, child molesting, murdering, nazi war criminal who supports the Kansas football program. You cannot shoot a fleeing felon.

A client told me of approaching a police car with a question. The officer told him to step back from the car. The client was outraged by the demand because he had a right to STAND HIS GROUND. We have a stand your ground law in Missouri; but that is not what it says. The law is limited to cases of self-defense. It is not so much a law as the absence of a law.