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- Title
LETHAL WEAPON: HOW PENNSYLVANIA'S STAND-YOUR-GROUND LAW EFFECTIVELY LIMITS THE REASONABLE BELIEF ELEMENT OF SELF-DEFENSE.
- Authors
Simons, Matthew G.
- Abstract
The article focuses on duty to retreat, stand-your-ground laws have seriously muddled the reasonable person standard, an already murky principle, and self-defense has become a windfall to otherwise culpable offenders. It mentions history of self-defense theory, from its origins in English common law to its current statutory form in American jurisdictions. It also mentions how stand-your-ground laws severely hinder the reasonable belief inquiry to the point that it loses objectivity.
- Subjects
STAND your ground (Law); SELF-defense (Law); COMMON law; JURISDICTION; OBJECTIVITY
- Publication
University of Pittsburgh Law Review, 2020, Vol 82, Issue 1, p241
- ISSN
0041-9915
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5195/lawreview.2020.779