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Castle Doctrine: Not So Cut and Dry

By Jacob Fuller

Jackson Free Press | January 17, 2013

Mississippi legislators passed one of the nation's broadest Castle Doctrine laws in 2006, giving Mississippians a wide range of legal reasoning to use deadly force. The statute exists as a lengthy amendment to the state's "justifiable homicide" law.

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Castle Doctrine: Not So Cut and Dry

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