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  2. No charges for Wake County homeowner who shot alleged ... - AOL

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    “Our state’s laws dictate when a person may use reasonable force — including deadly force — to protect themselves from presumable death or serious bodily injury,” Capps told ABC11, The N ...

  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. Stand-your-ground law - Wikipedia

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    Whether a jurisdiction follows stand-your-ground or duty-to-retreat is just one element of its self-defense laws. Different jurisdictions allow deadly force against different crimes. All American states allow it against prior deadly force, great bodily injury, and likely kidnapping or rape; some also allow it against threat of robbery and burglary.

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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.

  7. 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 ]

  8. Deadly force justified in fatal shooting of North Carolina ...

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    Law enforcement was justified in using deadly force against a gunman in North Carolina who fatally shot four officers and wounded four others in April, a prosecutor concludes in a report released ...

  9. 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]