"Use of a baseball bat in self-defense will likely be viewed as an imbalance of force"

[Demovictory9]

Poor kid would be sent away for 20 years for this. Kids of privilege get protected.


As Trump’s defense pick withdraws, he addresses violent domestic incidents

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In November 2011, Shanahan rushed to defend his then-17-year-old son, William Shanahan, in the days after the teenager brutally beat his mother. The attack had left Shanahan’s ex-wife unconscious in a pool of blood, her skull fractured, and with internal injuries that required surgery, according to court and police records.

Two weeks later, Shanahan sent his ex-wife’s brother a memo arguing that his son had acted in self-defense.

“Use of a baseball bat in self-defense will likely be viewed as an imbalance of force,” Shanahan wrote. “However, Will’s mother harassed him for nearly three hours before the incident.”

Details of the incidents have started to emerge in media reports about his nomination, including a USA Today report Tuesday about the punching incident in 2010.

In an hour-long interview Monday night at his apartment in Virginia, Shanahan, who has been responding to questions from The Post about the incidents since January, said he wrote the memo in the hours after his son’s attack, before he knew the full extent of his ex-wife’s injuries. He said it was to prepare for his son’s initial court appearance and that he never intended for anyone other than his son’s attorneys to read it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/trumps-defense-nominee-addresses-violent-incident-between-ex-wife-son-amid-fbi-vetting-process/2019/06/18/e46009de-190b-11e9-a804-c35766b9f234_story.html?utm_term=.6ef92b1b8123

[marble falls]

1. "Inbalence of force". Well sanitized expression for what that kid did.

[exboyfil]

2. I could see why you would write such a memo

to your legal team. Even argue it in court. Use the argument to try the get possibly both parties mental health treatment. I had a high school friend who stabbed his abusive father while the father was tuning up on his mother. Not the same situation of course, and my friend was justified in my opinion (he tried to kill himself after that but fortunately was unsuccessful - he is now a successful engineer and the dad has been out of the picture for a long time).