There is the kicker. The intruder you shot is down. Unconscious or semi conscious. Where is the continued threat? Would a reasonable man think that the downed intruder still was a threat? If he's still a threat why not just shoot him again?If one can articulate the continued threat, restrain.
Please stop the lawsuit fear garbage...it makes good honest people hesitate when they should act.
Sorry but you know as well as I do that the plaintiffs bar is continually looking for cases that they can ring up big settlements on. It's one thing to act to save your or your loved ones from imminent death or great bodily harm, it's something totally different to do something after the justifiable use of deadly force that can be construed as going beyond what was necessary. Cuffing someone you just shot is not likely to be considered a justifiable use of force in a civilian home defense context.
Lawsuits are an unpleasant fact of life. That's one of the reasons we train, so that our actions in time of crisis are good enough to win the fight and the inevitable criminal and civil judicial review of your actions. Talking about these things before one has a deadly force encounter is preferable to finding out in criminal or civil court that your presumptions about what was the right actions were completely wrong.
You can't make me believe that your department never trains on the legal aspects of use of force encounters.