Duty to Retreat
Alabama: | No Duty to Retreat |
Alaska: | No Duty to Retreat |
Arizona: | No Duty to Retreat |
Arkansas: | No |
California: | No Duty to Retreat |
Colorado: | No Duty to Retreat |
Connecticut: | Duty to Retreat before using Deadly Force except when in your dwelling (53a-19) |
Delaware: | Duty to Retreat before using Deadly Force except when in your dwelling (464-465) |
District of Columbia: | No Duty to Retreat |
Florida: | No Duty to Retreat |
Georgia: | No Duty to Retreat |
Hawaii: | Duty to Retreat before using Deadly Force except when in your dwelling (703-304) |
Idaho: | No Duty to Retreat |
Illinois: | No Duty to Retreat |
Indiana: | No Duty to Retreat |
Iowa: | No Duty to Retreat |
Kansas: | No Duty to Retreat |
Kentucky: | No Duty to Retreat |
Louisiana: | No Duty to Retreat |
Maine: | Duty to Retreat before using Deadly Force except when in your dwelling (108.2) |
Maryland: | Duty to Retreat before using Deadly Force except when in your dwelling (Barton v. State) |
Massachusetts: | Duty to Retreat before using ANY force except when in your dwelling (278-8a) |
Michigan: | No Duty to Retreat |
Minnesota: | Duty to Retreat before using any Force except when in your dwelling (State v. Glowacki) |
Mississippi: | No Duty to Retreat |
Missouri: | No Duty to Retreat |
Montana: | No Duty to Retreat |
Nebraska: | Duty to Retreat before using Deadly Force except when in your dwelling (28-1409) |
Nevada: | No Duty to Retreat |
New Hampshire: | No Duty to Retreat |
New Jersey: | Duty to Retreat before using Deadly Force except when in your dwelling (2c:3-4) |
New Mexico: | No Duty to Retreat |
New York: | Duty to Retreat before using Deadly Force except when in your dwelling (35-15) |
North Carolina: | No Duty to Retreat |
North Dakota: | No Duty To Retreat. HB1498 Effective 8/1/21 |
Ohio: | No |
Oklahoma: | No Duty to Retreat |
Oregon: | No Duty to Retreat |
Pennsylvania: | No duty to retreat if . . . (he) believes it is immediately necessary to do so to protect himself against death, serious bodily injury, kidnapping, or sexual intercourse by force or threat.” See 18 Pa.C.S. § 505(b)(2.3) |
Rhode Island: | Duty to Retreat before using Deadly Force except when in your dwelling (11-8-08) |
South Carolina: | No Duty to Retreat |
South Dakota: | No Duty to Retreat |
Tennessee: | No Duty to Retreat |
Texas: | No Duty to Retreat |
Utah: | No Duty to Retreat |
Vermont: | No duty to retreat if the deadly force was immediately necessary to defend against imminent threat of death or bodily injury |
Virginia: | No duty to retreat unless defendant made a contribution to the affray |
Washington: | No Duty to Retreat |
West Virginia: | No Duty to Retreat |
Wisconsin: | No Duty to Retreat |
Wyoming: | Case by case basis |
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