Gray Peterson
Founder's Club Member - Moderator
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RCW 9A.16.050:
Homicide is also justifiable when committed either:
(1) In the lawful defense of the slayer, or his or her husband, wife, parent, child, brother, or sister, or of any other person in his presence or company, when there is reasonable ground to apprehend a design on the part of the person slain to commit a felony or to do some great personal injury to the slayer or to any such person, and there is imminent danger of such design being accomplished; or
(2) In the actual resistance of an attempt to commit a felony upon the slayer, in his presence, or upon or in a dwelling, or other place of abode, in which he is.
RCW 9A.16.900 took effect yesterday, which states:
RCW 9A.16.900
Construction — Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships — 2009 c 521. (Effective if E2SSB 5688 is approved at the November 2009 election under Referendum Measure 71.)
For the purposes of this chapter, the terms spouse, marriage, marital, husband, wife, widow, widower, next of kin, and family shall be interpreted as applying equally to state registered domestic partnerships or individuals in state registered domestic partnerships as well as to marital relationships and married persons, and references to dissolution of marriage shall apply equally to state registered domestic partnerships that have been terminated, dissolved, or invalidated, to the extent that such interpretation does not conflict with federal law. Where necessary to implement chapter 521, Laws of 2009, gender-specific terms such as husband and wife used in any statute, rule, or other law shall be construed to be gender neutral, and applicable to individuals in state registered domestic partnerships.
Washington's self defense law just got slightly stronger today. In light of recent news involving a woman who just had her shooting of an aggressive man who was making threatening acts towards her, her partner, and their children, declared to be self defense by the prosecutors, I thought it was interesting to point out here.
RCW 9A.16.050:
Homicide is also justifiable when committed either:
(1) In the lawful defense of the slayer, or his or her husband, wife, parent, child, brother, or sister, or of any other person in his presence or company, when there is reasonable ground to apprehend a design on the part of the person slain to commit a felony or to do some great personal injury to the slayer or to any such person, and there is imminent danger of such design being accomplished; or
(2) In the actual resistance of an attempt to commit a felony upon the slayer, in his presence, or upon or in a dwelling, or other place of abode, in which he is.
RCW 9A.16.900 took effect yesterday, which states:
RCW 9A.16.900
Construction — Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships — 2009 c 521. (Effective if E2SSB 5688 is approved at the November 2009 election under Referendum Measure 71.)
For the purposes of this chapter, the terms spouse, marriage, marital, husband, wife, widow, widower, next of kin, and family shall be interpreted as applying equally to state registered domestic partnerships or individuals in state registered domestic partnerships as well as to marital relationships and married persons, and references to dissolution of marriage shall apply equally to state registered domestic partnerships that have been terminated, dissolved, or invalidated, to the extent that such interpretation does not conflict with federal law. Where necessary to implement chapter 521, Laws of 2009, gender-specific terms such as husband and wife used in any statute, rule, or other law shall be construed to be gender neutral, and applicable to individuals in state registered domestic partnerships.
Washington's self defense law just got slightly stronger today. In light of recent news involving a woman who just had her shooting of an aggressive man who was making threatening acts towards her, her partner, and their children, declared to be self defense by the prosecutors, I thought it was interesting to point out here.