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To: Ira Player who wrote (33797)	4/29/2005 6:20:36 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) of 90947

Mostly true. In (I believe) 49 states, you would have to leave your house and the bad guys would have to corner you and place yoi in imminent danger of death before you would be entitled to use deadly force. Not in Florida. cnn.com You had best not break into a home there and be armed. The homeowner can shoot to kill and will be legally in the clear. Another view: This is, under the English Common Law from which US law derives, one classical exception. Under the English principle, "a man's home is his castle." "Attacked in one's own home, one need not retreat." findarticles.com Now I beleive that to be not quite right. I personally know of a case in AZ in the late '50s where an armed burglar broke into a store that was also the family's home. The store owner shot and killed the man as he came out of the attic. He was tried and convicted of murder.

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