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  2. Stand-your-ground law - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Castle doctrine - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Defence of property - Wikipedia

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    (c) to protect his property... from trespass; (d) to protect property belonging to another from . . . damage caused by a criminal act or (with the authority of the other) from trespass... 29(i) For the purposes of s 27... (a) a person uses force in relation to... property not only where he applies force to, but also where he causes an impact on ...

  5. Duty to retreat - Wikipedia

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    State (1876), the Supreme Court of Ohio wrote that a "true man", one without fault, would not retreat. [5] In Runyan v. 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 ]

  6. Why Rochester police use deadly force against fleeing suspects

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    How does the Rochester Police Department permit use of force for fleeing suspects? The Rochester Police Department details its use of force policy in a general order, last updated in January 2023.

  7. When Akron police use deadly force, what comes next?

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    A law passed by Akron City Council in 2021 requires videos of "deadly force" by police to be automatically posted online for the public to view within seven days at akroncops.org.

  8. Justifiable homicide - Wikipedia

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    Justifiable homicide applies to the blameless killing of a person, such as in self-defense. [1]The term "legal intervention" is a classification incorporated into the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, and does not denote the lawfulness or legality of the circumstances surrounding a death caused by law enforcement. [2]

  9. Necessity defense (New York) - Wikipedia

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    (e.g., constructive force). New York's Penal Law does not expressly define non-deadly "physical force" but does implicitly define non-deadly "physical force" as being "any degree of physical force other than deadly physical force." PL 35.10(6); 35.20(2). "Deadly physical force" is defined in Penal Law s 10.00 (11) as that which is: