2011 Kansas Code
Chapter 21. - CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
Article 32. - PRINCIPLES OF CRIMINAL LIABILITY
21-3218 No duty to retreat; exceptions.

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 use any force which such person would be justified in using under article 32 of chapter 21 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto.

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

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