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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 ...
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.
One recent case on using force against a burglar is Anthony Martin v R (2001) EWCA 2245, [2] which resulted in the householder being convicted. As the law currently stands, a person in possession can use no more force than they reasonably believe necessary to remove a trespasser from the premises.
Fletcher, George P. (2000) Rethinking Criminal Law, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0195136950. Getman, Julius G; Marshall, F Ray (2001). "The Continuing Assault on the Right to Strike". Texas Law Review. 79 (3): 703. Green, Stuart P. (1999). "Castles and Carjackers: Proportionality and the Use of Deadly Force in Defense of Dwellings and ...
Generally, self-defense laws allow people to use deadly force when they “reasonably believe” doing so is necessary to protect themselves or others from being hurt or killed.
This leaves a population of dissenting or "non-participatory" landowners forced into fracking in the area, even if it's not on their property. Unitization has been legal in Ohio since 1965 ...
Ohio House Bill 140 calls for ballot language to be written in a way that would tell voters what levies would cost the owner of a home valued at $100,000 and how much the amount the tax would ...
Her shooting, which prevented her from stabbing another girl, was later deemed a justifiable homicide with prosecutors noting, "Under Ohio law the use of deadly force by a police officer is justified when there exists an immediate or imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury to the officer or another." [8] Sam Cooke. After an inquest ...