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jacqueline36
My question involves criminal law for the state of: California
I was raped when I was 15 by my step-father in Mexico. I moved to the states and later heard that he had dead. About two weeks ago, a strange man started hanging around my neighborhood and I recognized him as my step-father and it turns out that his death was only a rumor. A couple days ago, he followed me in his car out of town and I confronted him with a handgun and told him to never come near me again.
Tonight, he came into my house while I was alone preparing for some dinner guests and threatened to hurt me. My husband came home while this was happening and saw him and so my husband hit him with a metal candlestick which killed my step-father. He didn't mean to kill him and after checking the body my step-father didn't have any weapons on him.
A couple of my close friends who were to be my dinner guests came in the house and saw the body and helped us hide the body in a trunk in the living room. I'm panicked now and don't know what to do. Since my step-father was probably already listed as dead, can we just get rid of the body somehow and pretend this all didn't happen?
I obviously don't want my husband to go to prison, but I'm worried the police might not consider this to be self-defense since my step-father didn't hurt me tonight and wasn't armed. Please help as I'm really scared!!! Can I go to a attorney and tell him what happened or will he report it as a crime?