Criminal
Jun. 16, 2012
Parsing the new frontiers of self-defense in America
The law has been shifting away from an objective standard for many years. By Joseph Sorrentino
It has been widely reported that self-defense will be invoked by George Zimmerman to justify his fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trevon Martin. State legislatures have been giving more latitude for self-defense by enacting expansive "no duty to retreat" statutes. The traditional no retreat law, the so called "castle doctrine," gives a person in his home the right to use lethal force if he or she reasonably believes one's...
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