re: #65 Talking Point Detective

I looked at a few instances of case law and that’s no help. Sometimes SYG is taken just ridiculously broadly, sometimes it’s not. One could cherry pick either way, I lack the time to database then all and work up the stats. Supreme court precedent shows a kind of SYG, that is to say no obligation to retreat. At your home, on your land and at work.

So is a gated community still on “your land”? If so the defense attorney might go for the older precedent too. If inside the community is the same as a public street that would not apply of course.

Would we agree the better interpretation of SYG would not cover a situation where the alleged defender deliberately went to the assailant?

Of course we still have a huge disproportion of force. Which should also be a major consideration.