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2009 Kansas Code
Chapter 21 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
Article 32 PRINCIPLES OF CRIMINAL LIABILITY
21-3218. No duty to retreat; exceptions.

21-3218

Chapter 21.--CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
PART I.--GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 32.--PRINCIPLES OF CRIMINAL LIABILITY

      21-3218.   No duty to retreat; exceptions. (a) A person who is not engaged in an unlawful activity and who is attacked in a place where such person has a right to be has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand such person's ground and meet force with force.

      (b)   This section shall be part of and supplemental to the Kansas criminal code.

      History:   L. 2006, ch. 194, § 1; May 25.

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