Is a person required to retreat before using deadly force to defend oneself in the home?
What will be an ideal response?
All a person needs to show is that he or she reasonably believed he or she was in imminent danger of death or serious bodily harm and that no lesser degree of force was sufficient to prevent the harm. The courts are split, however, on whether a defendant has a duty to retreat. Some courts, giving homage to individual honor and dignity, allow a defendant to use deadly force even if he or she can safely retreat. Other courts, attaching more importance to the sanctity of human life, require a defendant to retreat if he or she can do so safely. Even the latter courts, however, do not require someone who is attacked in his or her home to retreat.
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