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Right to property upheld.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(Brief article)
Police spokesman Lt. Jeffery Scott indicated that no charges will be filed against a property owner in Jackson, Mississippi, who fatally shot a burglary suspect on November 22.
According to the Jackson Clarion Ledger, a police investigation indicated that the property owner was within his rights under the Castle Doctrine when he fired at and struck Brandon Lenard, 20, of Jackson in the act of attempting to steal his new Cadillac Escalade. The doctrine states that a person has "no duty to retreat" if the person believes he is in imminent danger, and it protects someone who uses deadly force in such circumstances.
"The owner heard something outside, so he stepped out of the house to see what it was. When he saw someone was in his vehicle, he went back inside to retrieve a ...
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...Legislature. Its goal: passage of a "castle doctrine law." That law basically states...that the NRA will seek to lobby for castle doctrine in eight unidentified states following...We are interested in pursuing castle doctrine legislation in Wyoming," said Ashley...
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...nation, more and more states are adopting Castle Doctrine legislation, which gives individuals the...article was printed, 24 states had active Castle Doctrine bills. The Castle Doctrine legislation assumes that an individual who...
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- Newspaper article from: Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX) October 13, 2006 700+ words
...do so last year. Dubbed "castle doctrine" laws, they are a derivative...common law. The spirit of the castle doctrine has traditionally been upheld...to defend themselves. The castle doctrine laws are so broad, he said...
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- Newspaper article from: Blade (Toledo, OH) June 14, 2007 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne, IN) July 5, 2006 700+ words
...property. House Bill 1028, commonly referred to as the "Castle Doctrine," an allusion to the phrase "every man's home is his...authored an earlier bill that eventually became part of the Castle Doctrine. He was unaware the law as previously written required...
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- Newspaper article from: Dayton Daily News Jeremy P. Kelley October 12, 2009 700+ words
...situation in the first place?' " None of the four people who fired in the Dayton cases face criminal charges. Ohio's Castle Doctrine Law, which went into effect last year, allows residents to defend their homes and occupied vehicles from invaders by any...
- U.S. EPA's New "Contiguous Property Owner" Guidance.
- News wire article from: Mondaq Business Briefing March 25, 2004 700+ words
...Prospective Purchaser, Contiguous Property Owner, at Innocent Landowners Limitations...owners about the scope of the Contiguous Property Owner protections under the Act. The important...in this memo. Who is a Contiguous Property Owner? The intent of the Contiguous Property...
- EDITORIAL: Property owner should be able to utilize land.
- Newspaper article from: Sun (Yuma, AZ) February 2, 2006 700+ words
...expansion collide with the plans of a property owner to use nearby land. The point of...circuited. But there is a dilemma for the property owner, too, that cannot be ignored. Should the property owner be expected to simply hold on to valuable...
