[joshuamorton]

> but you will never in a million years convict someone of murder when they were returning fire.

If you break into my home with a gun, I shoot at you and miss, and you shoot me and kill me, you would absolutely be convicted of murder or manslaughter.

The defense, in this case, relies on two claims:

1. The intruders were police officers (this doesn't, or shouldn't, give them carte blanche to shoot people)

2. The police announced themselves as police before entering, which is in dispute.

Further, the opportunity to bring manslaughter charges was never provided. The prosecutor declined to present murder or manslaughter to the Grand Jury.