utilizing your own reloads for home defense?

[Kleanbore]

Heres my take on this.I have testified on many cases involving bad guy shooters.Not once has the issue of ammo ever been brought up.I can't even recall hearing anything about what make of bullet was used,just the gun itself.

Gathering evidence on the type of ammunition used is standard procedure and is covered in most homicide investigation checklists. Whether the subject will come up in trial court will depend on the case.

It could come up for any number of reasons--and then again, it may not.

If this never comes up involving criminals shooting people,I really doubt it would come up in a self defense shoot that was legal and justified.Maybe it would come up if it was a bad shooting?

But the purpose of the trial is to determine if the shooting was justified. If enough evidence supports the defendant's case don't expect to hear about the ammunition.

Take the Harold Fish case, for example. Fish shot and killed someone. He was unable to present sufficient evidence to create reasonable doubt in the minds of the jurors about the charge that he committed murder in the second degree. The state introduced evidence about the factory ammunition Fish used to establish state of mind.

Was it determinative? Who knows?

 

[FM-793]

Interesting to see reloaders argue personal injury law. My sister is a personal injury lawyer and I've seen her operate.

I don't load Federal brass and have none in my house - my home defense round is factory Federal +P hydroshocks in shiny nickle cases. I have the box with two or three remaining rounds in my ammo closet with the receipt tucked into a file where I keep my important receipts. If asked, I use factory ammo because it is more reliable.

 

[Double Naught Spy]

Take the Harold Fish case, for example. Fish shot and killed someone. He was unable to present sufficient evidence to create reasonable doubt in the minds of the jurors about the charge that he committed murder in the second degree. The state introduced evidence about the factory ammunition Fish used to establish state of mind.

Yes, ammunition came up in the fish case, as did caliber. His lawyer did nothing to refute the characterizations made about the ammo and Fish. Bad lawyer. Of course, the real issue seemed to be that the jurors had a 'huge' problem with the fact that they believed Fish shot the other guy when he did not pose a threat.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15199221/page/5/

Larson: So this idea that he may have been stopped, that these may have been defensive wounds, played huge?

Elliot: Absolutely.

Nelson: It was major.

So yeah, the ammo was a real problem given that the jurors felt Fish shot a guy who wasn't being a threat. In other words, they felt Fish murdered the guy and so ammo was a big part of how Fish effected that murder.

It wasn't murder because of the ammo. It was murder because "the jury believed" Fish shot an unarmed man who was not a threat to him at that moment.