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Opinions in Minnesota that cite State v. Carothers, 594 N.W.2d 897.
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State of Minnesota, Respondent,
Minn. Ct. App. 2025
” which “provides that a person has no duty to retreat from their home before acting in self-defense.” d 191, 197 n.4 (Minn. 2024) ( 629 (Minn. 2006), as “ rejecting a duty to retreat before acting in self-defense where the shooting occurred in the upstairs bedroom of the defendant’s home,” for the proposition that “early Minnesota caselaw rejected a duty to retreat in cases of self-defense occurring in one’s home”).
- State of Minnesota v. Julian Daniel Valdez Minn. 2024
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State of Minnesota v. Julian Daniel Valdez
Minn. 2024
629 (Minn. 2006) (rejecting a duty to retreat before acting in self-defense where the shooting occurred in the upstairs bedroom of the defendant’s home); (noting that “early Minnesota caselaw rejected a duty to retreat in cases of self-defense occurring in one’s home”).
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State of Minnesota,
Minn. 2024
(observing that Minnesota has codified the common law of self-defense, but not whether the duty to retreat attaches to the defense, so the duty instead arises from case law).
- State of Minnesota v. Julian Daniel Valdez Minn. Ct. App. 2023
- State of Minnesota v. Julian Daniel Valdez Minn. Ct. App. 2023
- State of Minnesota, Respondent, Minn. Ct. App. 2023
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State of Minnesota, Respondent,
Minn. Ct. App. 2021
See, (stating that “when acting in self-defense in the home, a person should not be required to retreat from the home before using reasonable force to defend himself” (emphasis added)); (s tating that there is no duty to retreat “for people engaging in self-defense within their homes” (emphasis added)).
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In the Matter of the Civil Commitment of: Maxim Kenneth Rhone.
Minn. Ct. App. 2018
se of dwelling is justified if (1) “the killing was done to prevent the commission of a felony in the d welling,” (2) “the defendant’s j udgment as to the gravity of the situation was reasonable under the circumstances,” and (3) “the defendant’s election to defend his or her dwelling was such as a reasonable person would have made in light of the danger to be apprehended.”
- State of Minnesota, Respondent, Minn. Ct. App. 2018
- State v. Pollard 900 N.W.2d 175 Minn. Ct. App. 2017
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State v. Pollard
900 N.W.2d 175
Minn. Ct. App. 2017
elling, the jury must determine that (1) “the killing was done to prevent the commission of a felony in the dwelling,” (2) “the defendant’s judgment as to the gravity of the situation was reasonable under the circumstances,” and (3) “the defendant’s election to defend his or her dwelling was such as a reasonable person would have made in light of the danger to be apprehended.”
- State of Minnesota v. Christian Mccary Mayo Minn. Ct. App. 2016
- State of Minnesota v. Christian Mccary Mayo Minn. Ct. App. 2016
- State of Minnesota v. Charles Edward Gorgol Minn. Ct. App. 2015
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State of Minnesota v. Charles Edward Gorgol
Minn. Ct. App. 2015
at 596–97, 100 S. Ct. at 1385; d 897, 900 (Minn. 1999).
- State of Minnesota v. Daniel Joseph Devens 852 N.W.2d 255 Minn. 2014
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State of Minnesota v. Daniel Joseph Devens
852 N.W.2d 255
Minn. 2014
We have used the phrase in a defense-of-dwelling case, and have referred to the home as a “castle” while discussing the duty to retreat in a self- defense case
- McCaughtry v. City of Red Wing 831 N.W.2d 518 Minn. 2013
- State v. Baird 654 N.W.2d 105 Minn. 2002
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State v. Baird
654 N.W.2d 105
Minn. 2002
-04 (Minn.1999), and our decision in Glowacki , however, the court of appeals concluded that the duty-to-retreat instructions had been summarily upheld in Hennum and Morrison and that self-defense in the home should not include a duty to retreat.
- State v. Baird 640 N.W.2d 363 Minn. Ct. App. 2002
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State v. Baird
640 N.W.2d 363
Minn. Ct. App. 2002
But in 1999, the supreme court examined the duty to retreat in self-defense cases and concluded that “self-defense in the home should not incorporate a duty to retreat.”
- State v. Glowacki 630 N.W.2d 392 Minn. 2001
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State v. Glowacki
630 N.W.2d 392
Minn. 2001
The state argued that there is always a duty to retreat when acting in self-defense in one’s home, based on the court of appeals’ rev’d
- State v. Glowacki 615 N.W.2d 843 Minn. Ct. App. 2000
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State v. Glowacki
615 N.W.2d 843
Minn. Ct. App. 2000
Glowacki argues that his conduct involves defense of a dwelling