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English: Map of stand-your-ground / duty-to-retreat jurisdictions within the U.S., updated by Eugene Volokh, as of Sept. 1, 2020 Source Wikipedia, Stand-your-ground law page
Previous revision by Eugene Volokh has been changed to reflect that Wisconsin is a middle-ground state. Washington D.C. does not require duty to retreat, but duty to retreat is specifically exempted when defending oneself in the home, and juries can consider duty to retreat outside the home.
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 ...
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 ...
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]
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Under the common law rule and the rule in a minority of states, the actor must have shown that he or she retreated prior to using deadly force unless: 1) it was not safe to retreat; or 2) the incident occurred at the actor's home. [14] In addition, the Model Penal Code requires retreat or compliance, if it can be done with complete safety. [15]
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