Link: Good Samaritan kills attacker, saves AZ Trooper who was ambushed

TIDE-HSV

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I would hope you are right, but in a civil suit, jurors often check their brains at the door.
I'll have to look it up, but there may be a statute absolving "good Samaritans" in those situations from liability. I know there is for persons trying to help in a medical emergency...
 

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Well, here 'tis. It was intended to cover medical emergencies, but I'd certainly make the argument that the officer had a medical emergency on his hands...

(g) Any person, who, in good faith, renders emergency care at the scene of an accident or emergency to the victim or victims thereof without making any charge of goods or services therefor shall not be liable for any civil damages as a result of any act or omission by the person in rendering emergency care or as a result of any act or failure to act to provide or arrange for further medical treatment or care for the injured person if the individual acts as a reasonably prudent person would have acted under the same or similar circumstances.
 

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Strange about the male part of the Tennessee law. Must be an old law.

Of course, a male could get out by claiming that he was feeling that he was a woman at the time.
I think the woman here could handle things.




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