Now, if you were on your way home at night and discovered that you were being followed by an unknown person(s), turn by turn, wouldn’t you be in fear of being harmed or killed?

Height and weight has absolutely nothing to do with what happened late that night. Driving that car was a 19 year old who made a 19 year old decision at that moment.

Also, this kid isn’t on the football team because he knew someone. He worked hard in high school on the field and in the classroom and he continues to work hard in college. He let someone who hates football players (loser) get to him because he has not yet learned how to ignore ignorant people. Ronnie made a mistake by reacting and I hope he has learned his lesson but I don’t feel that his first offense should dictate his future. We all make mistakes.

I’ve known Ronnie a long time and I wish him the best life has to offer. I hope this incident has been a life altering change for him….IN A VERY GOOD WAY.

The use of force likely to cause death or great bodily harm is justifiable only if the defendant reasonably believes that the force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself while resisting:

1. another’s attempt to murder him, or
2. any attempt to commit Aggravated Assault in any dwelling house occupied by
him.

A person is justified in using force likely to cause death or great bodily harm if he reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent

1. imminent death or great bodily harm to himself or another, or
2. the imminent commission of Aggravated Assault against himself or
another.

I will now define Aggravated Assault for you. Aggravated Assault is the intentional and unlawful threat by word or act to do violence to another, and in the course of such threat or act a deadly weapon was used.

In deciding whether defendant was justified in the use of force likely to cause death or great bodily harm, you must judge him by the circumstances by which he was surrounded at the time the force was used. The danger facing the defendant need not have been actual; however, to justify the use of likely force to cause death or great bodily harm, the appearance of danger must have been so real that a reasonably cautious and prudent person under the same circumstances would have believed that the danger could be avoided only through the use of that force. Based upon appearances, the defendant must have actually believed that the danger was real.

The defendant cannot justify the use of force likely to cause death or great bodily harm unless he used every reasonable means within his power and consistent with his own safety to avoid the danger before resorting to that force.

The fact that the defendant was wrongfully attacked cannot justify his use of force likely to cause death or great bodily harm if by retreating he could have avoided the need to use that force. However, if the defendant was placed in a position of imminent danger of death or great bodily harm and it would have increased his own danger to retreat, then his use of force likely to cause death or great bodily harm was justifiable.

If the defendant was attacked in his own home or on his own premises by a person who was lawfully on the premises, the defendant had a duty to retreat within the residence to the extent reasonably possible without increasing his own danger of death or great bodily harm.

However, the defendant was not required to flee his home and had the lawful right to stand his ground and meet force with force, even to the extent of using force likely to cause death or great bodily harm if it was necessary to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself.

In considering the issue of self-defense, you may take into account the relative physical abilities and capacities of the defendant and the victim.

If in your consideration of the issue of self-defense you have a reasonable doubt on the question of whether the defendant was justified in the use of force likely to cause death or great bodily harm, you should find the defendant not guilty.

However, if from the evidence you are convinced that the defendant was not justified in the use of force likely to cause death or great bodily harm, you should find him guilty if all the elements of the charge have been proved.

Sorry just bustin balls. Either way, does Rae Carruth live in Florida now?