01 December 2009

Affirmative Defense for Mountain Murders

So, I'm having a discussion with another attorney today and he was trying to explain how mountain folk feel about murder. As he explained it there is a two part affirmative defense which doesn't exist in other parts of the Commonwealth:
(1) That sonuvab!tch needed to get kilt, and
(2) I was the right person to do it.
We discussed for a while whether this is a perfect defense and came to the conclusion that it is in some cases, but not in others. It seems to depend on how much a sonuvab!cth he is and whether he is either (a) on your land, or (b) with your wife.

2 comments:

Mark Bennett said...

Who knew that the Virginia mountains were populated by Texans?!?

Joel Rosenberg said...

Mark: pretty much all Minnesotans. From our POV, you folks are all the same. (As opposed to West Virginians, where everything's, err, relative.)