- Joined
- Jun 26, 2012
- Messages
- 30,818
- Reaction score
- 38,169
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime...-home-his-home-is-a-box/ar-BBYYibJ?ocid=ientp
Each night, Joseph Matos builds his home on the East Side by placing several cardboard boxes on the ground for cushioning and then linking together a half dozen others so he can fit inside to sleep.
One night in October 2018, he said, he was jolted from his slumber by a thud, followed by another. Startled, he leapt outside and grabbed a knife. A college student, walking by with a friend, had kicked Mr. Matos’s box because he thought it was trash, investigators said.
What happened next could send Mr. Matos, 57, to prison for more than a decade. Mr. Matos faces assault charges for stabbing one of the men and slashing the other, but he is fighting the case with an unusual argument: His lawyers say he was defending his home against attackers.
Under New York’s “castle doctrine,” a person has a right to protect his home with deadly force if he reasonably believes another person is entering without permission and is seeking to commit a crime. The defense hinges partly on whether a collection of cardboard boxes is a home.
______________________________________
I need a few more details to decide, if the kid kicked the box and kept on walking he's a royal asshole but didn't deserve to get stabbed as he was no longer an active threat. If the kid kicked the box and was continuing to attack the box or taunting the homeless guy who was in fear of being attacked again then war homeless dude. He has every right to protect what he calls home.
Reading through, seems one kid's stab wounds are to the shoulder and back so that's not a good sign that it was actually defensive. The other above the eye.
Each night, Joseph Matos builds his home on the East Side by placing several cardboard boxes on the ground for cushioning and then linking together a half dozen others so he can fit inside to sleep.
One night in October 2018, he said, he was jolted from his slumber by a thud, followed by another. Startled, he leapt outside and grabbed a knife. A college student, walking by with a friend, had kicked Mr. Matos’s box because he thought it was trash, investigators said.
What happened next could send Mr. Matos, 57, to prison for more than a decade. Mr. Matos faces assault charges for stabbing one of the men and slashing the other, but he is fighting the case with an unusual argument: His lawyers say he was defending his home against attackers.
Under New York’s “castle doctrine,” a person has a right to protect his home with deadly force if he reasonably believes another person is entering without permission and is seeking to commit a crime. The defense hinges partly on whether a collection of cardboard boxes is a home.
______________________________________
I need a few more details to decide, if the kid kicked the box and kept on walking he's a royal asshole but didn't deserve to get stabbed as he was no longer an active threat. If the kid kicked the box and was continuing to attack the box or taunting the homeless guy who was in fear of being attacked again then war homeless dude. He has every right to protect what he calls home.
Reading through, seems one kid's stab wounds are to the shoulder and back so that's not a good sign that it was actually defensive. The other above the eye.
![[<dunn]](http://i.imgur.com/tNvC16j.png "dunn [<dunn]")
