02-12-2014, 12:27 PM
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Originally Posted by dyna mo
**********, your views are based primarily, if not entirely, on other's opinions of media reports, usually over-sensationalized.
The fact is all states have stand your ground jury instructions, I'm using the "stand your ground" terminolgy since you've globbed on to the phrase.
For instance, here in California,
California Criminal Law instruction 3470:
"A defendant is not required to retreat. He or she is entitled to stand
his or her ground and defend himself or herself and, if reasonably
necessary, to pursue an assailant until the danger of (death/bodily
injury) has passed."
There is no duty to retreat from an attacker anywhere in the USA.
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This is only pertaining to Castle Doctrine, but I'm sure there are other doctrines/laws as well, state-by-state?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_...h_a_castle_law
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