2006-11-28 13:13:56 · 3 answers · asked by Martha M 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Water guns at ten paces.
2006-11-28 13:16:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Date updated: Aug 23, 2005 @ 8:29 pm
39-11-611. Self-defense.
(a) A person is justified in threatening or using force against another person when and to the degree the person reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary to protect against the other's use or attempted use of unlawful force. The person must have a reasonable belief that there is an imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury. The danger creating the belief of imminent death or serious bodily injury must be real, or honestly believed to be real at the time, and must be founded upon reasonable grounds. There is no duty to retreat before a person threatens or uses force.
(b) Any person using force intended or likely to cause death or serious bodily injury within the person's own residence is presumed to have held a reasonable fear of imminent peril of death or serious bodily injury to self, family or a member of the household when that force is used against another person, not a member of the family or household, who unlawfully and forcibly enters or has unlawfully and forcibly entered the residence, and the person using the force knew or had reason to believe that an unlawful and forcible entry occurred.
2006-11-30 08:38:35 · answer #2 · answered by Rob R 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That unlawful provocation was committed by someone,
That the person depending himself used reasonable force, and
That the defense could not had been made if not provoked.
2006-11-28 13:18:06 · answer #3 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋