"I'll KILL HIM GRAVEYARD DEAD!": WOMAN SHOOTS INTRUDER

Title click to read article and listen to 911 call.

Chandler, OK resident, Donna Jackson, was home alone when a man broke into her home. Jackson was on the phone with the 911 operator when she fired one shot, killing the intruder.

Read the D.A.'s letter to the Sheriff. "I decline prosecution."

http://s3.amazonaws.com/content.newsok.com/documents/d8shooting.pdf

What is the law in New Mexico?

New Mexico

Section 30-2-7A NMSA 1978 provides that a homicide is justifiable when committed in the necessary defense of property. Although this statute has been a part of New Mexico law since 1907, the New Mexico appellate courts have never given the statute a broad interpretation. The New Mexico courts have consistently held, not always referring to the statute, that one cannot defend his property, other than his habitation, from a mere trespass to the extent of killing the aggressor. State v. McCracken, 22 N.M. 588, 166 P. 1174 (1917); State v. Martinez, 34 N.M. 112, 278 P. 210 (1929); State v. Couch, 52 N.M. 127, 193 P.2d 405 (1946).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Doctrine_in_the_United_States

New Mexico Annotated Statute: 30-2-7

Homicide is justifiable when committed by any person in any of the following cases:

		A. when committed in the necessary defense of his life, his family or his property, or in necessarily defending against any unlawful action directed against himself, his wife or family;

		B. when committed in the lawful defense of himself or of another and when there is a reasonable ground to believe a design exists to commit a felony or to do some great personal injury against such person or another, and there is imminent danger that the design will be accomplished; or

		C. when necessarily committed in attempting, by lawful ways and means, to apprehend any person for any felony committed in his presence, or in lawfully suppressing any riot, or in necessarily and lawfully keeping and preserving the peace.