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"A judge shall accord to every person who has a legal interest in a proceeding, or that person's lawyer, full right to be heard according to law." [44] South Carolina: Const. Art. 1 § 9 "All courts shall be public, and every person shall have speedy remedy therein for wrongs sustained." [1] South Carolina: Code Ann. § 40-5-80
A 2016 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association compared homicide rates in Florida following the passage of its "stand your ground" self-defense law to the rates in four control states, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Virginia, which have no similar laws. It found that the law was associated with a 24.4% increase in homicide and ...
When the use of deadly force is involved in a self-defense claim, the person must also reasonably believe that their use of deadly force is immediately necessary to prevent the other's infliction of great bodily harm or death. [3] Most states no longer require a person to retreat before using deadly force. In the minority of jurisdictions which ...
A castle doctrine, also known as a castle law or a defense of habitation law, is a legal doctrine that designates a person's abode or any legally occupied place (for example, an automobile or a home) as a place in which that person has protections and immunities permitting one, in certain circumstances, to use force (up to and including deadly force) to defend oneself against an intruder, free ...
Self-defense laws give all of the power to the wrong people “A legal environment that favors the armed in their confrontations with the unarmed, police in their confrontations with suspects, and ...
In law, the duty to retreat, or requirement of safe retreat, [1]: 550 is a legal requirement in some jurisdictions that a threatened person cannot harm another in self-defense (especially lethal force) when it is possible instead to retreat to a place of safety.
The "stand your ground" self-defense law has been in effect in Florida for over six years. The law is now associated with over 700 deaths.
A criminal defense expert said there’s still a lot to learn about the case of 16-year-old Ralph Yarl but the state law makes it clear that you can’t just shoot someone for coming to your door.