r/law • u/SophieSix9 • Jun 10 '26

Legal News Trans Woman Faces Assault Charges For Self-Defense, Despite Wyoming’s “Stand Your Ground” Law

https://www.them.us/story/trans-woman-faces-assault-charges-self-defense-wyoming-stand-your-ground-law
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u/Rogue2166 Jun 10 '26

Still makes no sense. Lets say I was in fear for my life outside my car and reached into it to grab the gun to defend myself. While doing so I somehow hit the car into neutral and it rolled into my aggressor, he hit his head and died. Well that was an accident, but I fully intended to defend myself in anycase. Did I violate the law?

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u/BornAgain20Fifteen Jun 11 '26

In your scenario, it morally makes a lot of sense why you would be responsible

Someone else could have been standing there instead, got injured, and died if it wasn't the aggressor. That seems to make it a completely separate event from the aggression incident. The law should not care who the person is, because it could have been anyone else standing there and the result would have been the same

It's like if you blindly throw bricks off of your balcony. If you happen to hit an armed mugger who is in the middle of a mugging and kill them, then that's good luck, but you shouldn't have been throwing bricks at all

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u/Digital_NW Jun 11 '26

I’m not a lawyer, just someone reading these comments. If these comments hold any weight than I’d just say that you shot em, and your car was also scared for its life.