Don’t do what Mr. Griffin did.<\/p>\n
Criminal defense attorney explains manslaughter charges after suspected burglar killed<\/a><\/p>\n MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) – A man has been charged with voluntary manslaughter after admitting to police that he shot a burglary suspect.<\/p>\n This happened\u00a0on Robin Hood Lane<\/a>\u00a0in Memphis this Thursday. Marques Griffin, 30, told police he heard a noise in his apartment and found a man in his living room.<\/p>\n According to MPD, Griffin followed the intruder outside and fired three shots as the man ran away.<\/p>\n The suspected burglar died at the hospital.<\/p>\n Phil Harvey, the owner of Harvey Criminal Defense Lawyers, said that based on Griffin\u2019s charges, MPD and the DA\u2019s office decided he did not have a legitimate self-defense claim.<\/p>\n \u201cIf it\u2019s true that Mr. Griffin shot someone outside of the home, then there\u2019s a question of whether or not that self-defense statute applies,\u201d said Harvey.<\/p>\n Harvey said Tennessee does\u00a0not<\/i>\u00a0have a \u201cStand Your Ground\u201d law.<\/p>\n He said the self-defense statute is written to apply when the victim is in their home and responding to a threat who is also inside or actively coming in.<\/p>\n \u201cThe standard \u2018no duty to retreat\u2019 part of that statute simply says you have to have a reasonable fear of what they call \u2018imminent danger,\u2019\u201d said Harvey.<\/p>\n Harvey said that means that for deadly force to be considered self-defense, the victim has to be under an immediate threat of death or serious bodily injury.<\/p>\n Harvey said there is established case law on this type of incident.<\/p>\n \u201cTennessee v. Garner… It\u2019s a 1985 case. A U.S. Supreme Court case that came out of Tennessee that actually dealt with whether or not police can shoot a fleeing felon. And in that case, it dealt with a burglary suspect who was running away and was shot by the police. And the federal courts decided that it is a violation of the Fourth Amendment,\u201d said Harvey.<\/p>\n Griffin remains behind bars on a $50,000 bond and is slated to reappear in court on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Don’t do what Mr. Griffin did. Criminal defense attorney explains manslaughter charges after suspected burglar killed MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) – A man has been charged with voluntary manslaughter after admitting to police that he shot a burglary suspect. This happened\u00a0on Robin Hood Lane\u00a0in Memphis this Thursday. Marques Griffin, 30, told police he heard a noise … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courts","category-law-order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114534,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114533\/revisions\/114534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}