Prevención de suicidios y delitos

Explicación Simple

A veces, si ves a alguien que quiere hacerse daño o hacerle daño a otros, puedes intervenir usando fuerza. Esto es aceptable si crees que es urgente y necesario para ayudar a esa persona.

Es como cuando ves a un amigo a punto de caer de una escalera. Si crees que va a lastimarse, puedes empujarlo suavemente para evitar que se caiga.

Ejemplo Práctico

Imagina que Juan está en una fiesta y de repente saca un cuchillo, amenazando a todos. María, viendo que la situación se vuelve peligrosa, decide intervenir y le quita el cuchillo a Juan para proteger a sus amigos. En este caso, María actuó de manera justificada según la ley.

Penalidades

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Texto Original del Estatuto (Inglés)

503.100 Prevention of a suicide or crime. (1) The use of physical force by a defendant upon another person is justifiable when the defendant believes that such force is immediately necessary to prevent such other person from: (a) Committing suicide or inflicting serious physical injury upon himself; or (b) Committing a crime involving or threatening serious physical injury to person, substantial damage to or loss of property, or any other violent conduct. (2) The use of deadly physical force by a defendant upon another person is justifiable under subsection (1)(b) only when the defendant believes that the person whom he seeks to prevent from committing a crime is likely to endanger human life. (3) The limitations imposed on the justifiable use of force in self -protection by KRS 503.050 and 503.060, for the protection of others by KRS 503.070, for the protection of property by KRS 503.080, and for the effectuation of an arrest or the prevention of an escape by KRS 503.090 apply notwithstanding the criminality of the conduct against which such force is used. Effective: January 1, 1975 History: Created 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 406, sec. 35, effective January 1, 1975.