File Code: Criminal Law - Substantive Crimes
- Sponsored By:
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Senators Hooper, Colburn, Haines, Harris, Jacobs, and Mooney
- Entitled:
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Crimes - Self-Defense - No Duty to Retreat or Seek Safety by Escape
Authorizing a person charged with a specified crime to assert a claim
of self-defense even though the person failed to retreat or seek
safety by escape.
Senate Action
- 2/15
- First Reading Senate Rules
- 2/23
- Re-referred Judicial Proceedings
- 3/8
- Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
House Action
- No Action
Sponsored by:
- Senator J. Robert Hooper, District 35
- Senator Richard F. Colburn, District 37
- Senator Larry E. Haines, District 5
- Senator Andrew P. Harris, District 7
- Senator Nancy Jacobs, District 34
- Senator Alexander X. Mooney, District 3
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ASSAULT
- CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS -see also- PENALTIES; SENTENCES; etc.
- SELF DEFENSE
Bill affects the following Statute:
- Criminal Law
- (
3-209
)
- Bill Text (Displayed in PDF Format):
First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note (Displayed in PDF Format):
Available
- Amendments:
None offered
