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Thirty-eight states are stand-your-ground states, all but eight by statutes providing "that there is no duty to retreat from an attacker in any place in which one is lawfully present": Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, [23] Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada ...
Arkansas Gov signed stand your ground by statute: 22:08, 4 January 2021: 959 × 593 (97 KB) EugeneVolokh: Updated Ohio to reflect new statute. 03:00, 25 November 2020: 959 × 593 (97 KB) HapHaxion: minor coding fix: 15:23, 1 September 2020: 959 × 593 (97 KB) EugeneVolokh
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 ...
The researchers evaluated state laws on 50 key policies, including background checks, red flag laws, gun storage requirements as well as prohibiting "stand your ground" and permitless carry laws.
Nebraska would become one of the last Republican-led states to enact a so-called “stand your ground” law under a bill presented to a legislative committee on Thursday. State Sen. Brian Hardin ...
Missouri is among more than 30 states that have adopted some version of stand your ground laws over the past two decades, said Robert Spitzer, a professor emeritus of political science at the ...
Upon reviewing WS 939.48, Wisconsin law is virtually similar to that in D.C. I will be sufficiently editing the Wikipedia page for "stand-your-ground law" to reflect this. 01:42, 22 April 2021: 959 × 593 (97 KB) EugeneVolokh: Map of US jurisdictions' stand-your-ground / duty-to-retreat rules. 09:27, 6 January 2021: 959 × 593 (97 KB ...
New Mexico's self-defense statute (NMSA 30-2-7) is vaguely worded and does not specifically address Castle Doctrine or Stand Your Ground situations. [123] However, Castle Doctrine has been established on a limited basis by a 1946 New Mexico Supreme Court ruling, which states that when a person reasonably feels "threatened with an attack need ...