Man shot by intruder posing as FBI agent

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Hi Chefman, Welcome aboard!

Yeah, I'm prety sure the consensus is that if someone bursts into your home 'guns a blazen' then the response would be to act accordingly.

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I often have wondered what percentage of home invasion and murder at homevictims died because the crook claimed to be some kind of cop. A lot of them let the perps in.

I do know one thing. Someone shows up unexpectedly on my door step, not in uniform and no identifiable squad car parked in the driveway, he won't get in until a call to 911 confirms his identity.

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Worth a look http://www.cato.org/raidmap/

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Just wanted to point out that this isn't complete information. There's at least one raid missing from the list (I'm guessing a LOT more). I know of a guy in Oakdale, CA that had his home raided in the early or mid-90s. They were there looking for drugs and a convicted felon believed to be at that address.

He thought he was being robbed, and resisted, causing the officers to break both his legs while trying to control him. Turns out they transposed a number in the address on the warrent, and nobody at the court noticed the error. So, they actually did have a warrent for his address, and he never did get restitution (that I know of).

CA law states that you can use lethal force if a "reasonable" person would be in fear of their life. The law further states that if this occurs during a forced entry to your home, the court's assumption will be that you reasonbly felt this fear. The burden is on the prosecutor to prove you did NOT act out of fear. I think that would be a tall order for a prosecutor to fill.

Then again, you would almost certainly be dead, so there would be no hearing...