Castle Doctrine in the Wolverine State
August 5th, 2009
Michigan’s Castle Doctrine Law and You
From the Michigan Coalition for Responsible Gun Owners (MCRGO):
The basic rule on use of force in self-defense is that the force must be proportional to the threat.
Essentially, deadly force is only authorized in self-defense when preventing: great bodily harm that could lead death, death, or rape (known modernly in Miichigan as sexual assault.) The individual using deadly force in legitimate self defense must have an actual belief that he is preventing one of those three things, and that belief has to be reasonable under all the circumstances. In other words, a jury would have to agree that, if they were in the same situation, they would share that same belief that great bodily harm, death, or sexual assault were about to occur.
Read the whole thing here.
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