Vincent is awoken in the middle of the night by a sound outside his house. He takes a loaded handgun from his nightstand and proceeds downstairs to his kitchen to check on the noise. He encounters a stranger in his kitchen. The stranger hits him in the face knocking him to the floor. As he gets up, Vincent sees the man running out his kitchen door. Vincent shoots the fleeing man in the back through the kitchen door. If Vincent is criminally charged, what is the most likely outcome of his case?
Ans: guilty, because he did not reasonably believe an imminent attack threatened him or his family with either death or serious bodily injury
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