Not in your home
Not in your home
Is that codified somewhere? I've always understood it to include retreating to a secure room in your house. I'd be glad to find out otherwise.
Is that codified somewhere? I've always understood it to include retreating to a secure room in your house. I'd be glad to find out otherwise.
Yes, but Maryland currently has a requirement for a "duty to retreat" (see http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-law-basics/states-that-have-stand-your-ground-laws.html) so any past castle doctrine in Maryland is meaningless.
^^ THIS!!!!!!!I hope you are not teaching people this in your class as it is absolutely incorrect. Inside your home there is NO duty to retreat and you can stand your ground. OUTSIDE your home you have a duty to retreat when you can SAFELY do so. Notice the word SAFELY.
As then-Judge (and later U.S. Supreme Court Justice) Benjamin Cardozo explained in 1914: "It is not now and never has been the law that a man assailed in his own dwelling is bound to retreat. If assailed there, he may stand his ground and resist the attack. He is under no duty to take to the fields and the highways, a fugitive from his own home."
I woke up this morning with buyers regret. sigh
I hope you are not teaching people this in your class as it is absolutely incorrect. Inside your home there is NO duty to retreat and you can stand your ground. OUTSIDE your home you have a duty to retreat when you can SAFELY do so. Notice the word SAFELY.
EDIT: I see the answer has been given. Castle Doctrine is not a codified law but is a doctrine as it is called. Basically a rule established by adjudication in previous cases as I understand it. Maybe one of our presiding attorneys could clarify that if I am incorrect.
The CCW Safe appears to be the best available. Think I am doing the Protector plan for active and retired cops/Military with the civil liability coverage for $370. Hell, without the liability coverage, $149 for protector is a no brainer.
I believe CCW Safe does not cover pencils.