He Gets The Crap Kicked Out Of Him By His Dad And When He Kills The Bastard, He Gets Charged With 1st Degree Murder. What A Stupid Prosecutor. This Would Be A Great Case For Jury Nullification!

He Killed His Father in Self-Defense – The Reason He’s Being Charged with 1st Degree Murder is Outrageous

His father terrorized him and abused him for years…

And despite filing numerous protection orders against him (none of which worked), his father continued to abuse him relentlessly.

When he feared his life was in danger, he did what anyone with a gun and common sense would do.

He shot his father.

The only problem here is it appears he fired too many times… and now’s he being charged with first degree murder.

Bearingarms.com writes:

A Virginia prosecutor has charged the son of a serially abusive man with first degree murder for shooting and killing his 6’4″ 250+ lbs father. A large part of her reasoning for filing murder charges is that she claims that the teen-aged victim fired too many shots in self-defense.

Ann Baskervill, the Dinwiddie County commonwealth’s attorney, said 18-year-old James Faison fired eight rounds at his father with a .45-caliber handgun, with six shots hitting the victim.

“He emptied the gun, the only reason he stopped shooting is because it didn’t have anymore ammo,” Baskervill said.

It is for this reason that she has charged Faison with first-degree murder, which could land the young man in prison for the rest of his life plus three years.

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While Irvin Faison appears to have been a vicious and violent thug who routinely and violently abused his son—and even did some jail time for that abuse—the prosecutor is claiming that son James Faison used too many bullets in shooting his father to legitimately claim lawful self-defense.

James Faison had been repeatedly abused by his father, and has now be charged with his father’s murder.

The media coverage of this case has been “a mile wide and an inch deep” as folks would say back home, with a lot of background information on the protective orders (plural) filed by James Faison against his father in recent years, and Irvin Faison’s physical and psychological abuse of his son and ex-wife.

Unfortunately, there is precious little information about the specific circumstances of the shooting itself.

All the prosecutors are saying is that they felt James Faison had the ability to retreat and should have, and that they felt the number of shots fired was excessive.

As anyone who is familiar with self-defense shooting will tell you, you’ll be held accountable for every single bullet your fire.

Prosecutorial laws in the United States aren’t designed to protect the shooter.

And that’s quite a shame.

What everyone should be able to do is shoot until the target is completely neutralized.

In close quarter situations that might often mean firing more shots than someone might think necessary.

And no one should be charged for murder if all they’ve done is shot to protect themselves.

Wouldn’t you agree?