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The Joe Horn Law

Mark Bennett | July 1, 2008

Gideon makes his objections to the Texas defense of property law on which Joe Horn based his defense known here.
He pares down Texas’s defense-of-property-of-others law:

A person can use deadly force (as in this case) if he believes it is immediately necessary to terminate the trespass/burglary/robbery AND the property being taken cannot be recovered by any [...]