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Wyoming

gejohnston

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1. Wyoming is one of the few duty to retreat states

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sun Mar 4, 2018, 09:04 PM

Mar 2018

and as usual, the media screwed up the reporting on legal issues. The Trib's description is completely screwed up. The reasonable person standard always applies.

The original measure would have stated that individuals never had a duty to retreat when feeling threatened, even if a jury or prosecutor believed that doing so would have been the best option.

That is SYG, which all but a few states use as a standard. Most countries in the world are also SYG, including UK (since at least 1966).

Normally, immunity means civil immunity if acquitted and proven to be self-defense. Our current DTR common law has this.
Since SYG applies to federal jurisdictions, a good chunk of the state is SYG.

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Wyoming is one of the few duty to retreat states gejohnston Mar 2018 #1

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