Sentences with phrase «unlawful deadly force»
A person would no longer have to prove that they were unable to retreat «with complete personal safety» when faced with unlawful deadly force, as the law currently requires.
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Most recently, the state of Indiana has taken the castle doctrine even one step further, becoming the first state to specifically permit its residents to use deadly force in response to the «unlawful intrusion by another individual or a public servant.»
Kindaka Sanders, A Reason to Resist: The Use of Deadly Force in Aiding Victims of Unlawful Police Aggression, 52 San Diego L. Rev. 695, 732 - 35 (2015)(footnotes omitted).
Section 35 -41-3-2 provides, in essence, that an intervener may come to the aid of the perceived victim of unlawful police aggression and may, under certain circumstances, use deadly force to protect a third party, even a stranger, from excessive police force...
There are quite a few, which means that in practice deadly force could be considered unlawful in self - defense.
It can be legal to use deadly force to resist unlawful arrest.
776.013 (3) A person who is not engaged in an unlawful activity and who is attacked in any other place where he or she has a right to be has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground and meet force with force, including deadly force if he or she reasonably believes it is necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony.