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Originally Posted by Rick Lee
Stand your ground is different from castle doctrine. SYG means you have no duty to retreat when in a place you have a legal right to be. Most states also qualify this by requiring that you had nothing to do with creating the situations.
Example - You mouth off to a tough guy in a bar and you have a legal right to be there. But if he starts kicking your ass in the parking lot and doesn't stop, your killing him isn't gonna be justified, since you created the situation.
CD says you can use deadly force in your home when in reasonable fear of your life or limb. Given this law, it would be reasonable to assume an intruder intends to do you harm, armed or not, because his entering your occupied house is a suicide mission. I'd say a home invasion is a lot more serious than getting into a confrontation outside your house and there's probably less burden placed on homeowner to demonstrate he didn't contribute to the cause of the situation.
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