My question involves criminal law for the state of: South Carolina
So basically my father recently came into the house I am living in (grandmother's house), my father having legal right to be there (recently appointed PoA) and threatened to kill me, got violent (spit on me, pushed me, charged at me), and I was in fear of my life and ran to my bedroom and pointed an unloaded shotgun at him warning him that he needs to leave. He leaves, I lock the door, and call the police.
My dad completely lied to the police, saying he never even entered the house. He is being charged with assault and battery, and I am being charged with pointing and presenting. He is twice my size, so I had no other option to protect my life at the time.
My question is: am I likely to be convicted of this crime? He will probably lie to the end, saying he was never in the house, so it will wind up being my word against his.
I have been arrested twice in my life, never for anything violent, once for driving on suspended license, and once for "resisting without violence" for telling an officer what i thought when being ticketed for jaywalking.
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Here is a more thorough, detailed version of events for anyone interested:
Course of events:
- At roughly 3:45 PM I am sitting in my bedroom, watching TV, when I hear the front door open. I assumed it was my father, because he had entered the house the previous night and threatened to come back and harm me.
- Dad enters home, goes directly to washer/dryer
- I stand nearby, to ensure he doesn't steal anything, and to be ready in case he got violent, since he threatened me the previous night, which prompted me to call the police at that time.
- He begins bragging about how he has all the power now and how he can do whatever he wants, and says he won't have to "deal with me anymore" after he "gets rid of me"
- I ask him "how do you plan to rip off Grandma this time?"
- He says "i don't have to explain myself to you" and continues bragging about being able to do whatever he wants now and having all the power, and walks up to me and gets in my face, asking me to come "fight him outside" as he threatened the previous night
- He begins walking towards the front door, and i said "you are the biggest coward i have ever known because all you know to do in life is to threaten people with violence, and to be violent and intimidate people."
- He turns around, near the front door but inside, and walked towards me very aggressively and gets right in my face, clearly what i said struck a deep nerve and set him off, and he gets in my face and screams as loud as he can "I WILL KILL YOU AFTER I BREAK YOU", so loudly that I would be surprised if the neighbors did not hear it, and then he spits in my face, and pushes me back which isn't hard to do with me being 155 lbs.
- At this point I immediately turned around and ran towards my bedroom, being half of his size and knowing he has a long history of horrendous violence, seeing a lot of his violence myself in my childhood, and through learning of his violent criminal records, and his extensive history of martial arts, and knew that my life was in serious danger. So I ran to my bedroom and grabbed an unloaded .410 shotgun and pointed it at him in an attempt to end the threat to my life by scaring him out of the house so i can have enough time to call the police without anyone getting hurt, at which point the police were called and thankfully nobody was hurt.

