Murder and self defense aren't decided by intent. They're decided by ethical justification. If you are put in a situation where you are being attacked and are legally in the right to defend yourself, it doesn't actually matter if you were thinking "I'm going to die" or "fuck this goon", or if you shot multiple times to stop the threat vs doing a mozambique drill because you wanted to make sure the goon died. A self defense shooting is justified with the actual actions taken by the attacker and defender.
Murder and self defense aren't decided by intent. They're decided by ethical justification. If you are put in a situation where you are being attacked and are legally in the right to defend yourself, it doesn't actually matter if you were thinking "I'm going to die" or "fuck this goon", or if you shot multiple times to stop the threat vs doing a mozambique drill because you wanted to make sure the goon died. A self defense shooting is justified with the actual actions taken by the attacker and defender.
Correct. Intent is either self-reported data or assumption, neither of which belong in a legal proceeding.