Attempted murder trial. Unusual defense.

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Originally Posted by Spiced_Rum

If the victim was scared then he has a point. He could try the 'NRA defence', just needs to prove that he was normally a good shot down at the range and could have hit a moving target if he wanted to which could counter the attempted murder angle.

I think that would be a very hard defense to support.

I think all the prosecution needs to do is bring up the statistics of the number of people who have been killed, maimed, or injured by "blank ammunition" and the guy is going to go away for a while.

How would the defense prove that this guy was not aiming at the woman? I think there is a reasonable presumption that if someone shoots a gun at someone in anger, they intend to hit them, regardless of their actual ability to aim.

Not sure if the second degree murder charge will stick, but it sounds reasonable as an initial charge.

Does anyone know what the projectile range of a .44 mag blank round is?

We could ask Jon-Erik Hexum.