"Don Klipstein" wrote in message ...

Preferably call the police to haul away someone giving good appearance
of being lawfully shot in self-defense of life or home, as jurisdictional
law allows.

That's taught in some self-defense shooting courses--always be the one to
call the cops, before or after the fact.

A hungry lawyer or an ambitious DA will be looking for pegs on which to
hang the story that you were looking for trouble etc.

Will a DA be ambitious to prosecute a law-abider doing self-defense
against a criminal?

Hell yes, at least in some states. That's why some self-defense instructors
teach that if you neglect the legal aspects of self-defense you're asking
for trouble. Remember that Oklahoma druggist who shot the armed robber and
then for some reason went and got another gun and shot him five more times
as he was helpless on the floor? The first shot was perfectly legal, the
later shots got the druggist convicted of murder. That is a basic principle
of the law on self-defense, when the threat is ended you must cease
defensive violence, the law does not allow for revenge.

How well would that play, unless needing to be
re-elected in a jurisdiction whose voters favor the criminals?

I recall a case in New York where the owner of an auto-body shop shot a
burglar and the DA charged him with attempted murder on the grounds that the
owner wasn't really working late, he was waiting for burglars since his
business had repeatedly been broken into. Apparently he only dropped the
charges when it became obvious that public opinion was so against him that
he was never going to get a jury to convict. So it seems there are DAs who
will pursue their political biases even in the face of common sense.