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State (1877), the Indiana court rejected a duty to retreat, saying, [1]: 551–2 [5] "the tendency of the American mind seems to be very strongly against" a duty to retreat. [5] The court went further in saying that no statutory law could require a duty to retreat, because the right to stand one's ground is "founded on the law of nature ; and ...
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State v. Abbott, 36 N.J. 63, 174 A.2d 881 (1961), [1] is a landmark case in the American legal doctrine of retreat.In it, the New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously adopted a duty to retreat—a legal requirement that a threatened person cannot stand one's ground and apply lethal force in self-defense, but must instead retreat to a place of safety. [2]
Even areas that impose a duty to retreat generally follow the "castle doctrine", under which people have no duty to retreat when they are attacked in their homes, or (in some places) in their vehicles or workplaces. The castle doctrine and "stand-your-ground" laws provide legal defenses to persons who have been charged with various use-of-force ...
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English: Blank SVG map of USA. Hawaii and alaska have been moved closer to the mainland USA to reduce width of image, and labels for each state have been added. Non-contiguous parts of states/provinces are "grouped" together with the main area of the state/provinces, so any state/provinces can be coloured in completion with one click anywhere on the state/provinces's area.
Should be visually identical to the original. In the source code, the states have been alphabetized, and css classes have been added so that it's easier to color specific regions (as per US census regions and some others). 06:26, 29 October 2007: 600 × 400 (85 KB) Kaboom88~commonswiki: fixed hawaii and alaska: 06:03, 27 October 2007: 600 × ...
Blank map of the USA: Date: 10 September 2006: Source: Modified from Image:Map of USA with state names.svg: Author: Original author User:Wapcaplet, modified by Angr: Permission (Reusing this file) Multilicensed under GFDL and CC-BY-SA: Other versions: Derivative works of this file: Map of States with State Defense Forces.png; Official Dog ...