Sentence examples for deadly force to defend from inspiring English sources
Most people assume that they can use deadly force to defend their homes and families from intruders.
Just Wednesday, the state's House of Representatives overrode Mr. Lynch's veto on a bill expanding the rights of citizens to use deadly force to defend themselves in public.
There is no reason for America to deploy deadly force to defend an ethnically repressive Iranian ally from security threats it has itself created.
Michigan law allows people to use deadly force to defend themselves when they believe their lives are in danger or when they feel threatened by serious bodily harm.
She is ready, willing and able to use deadly force to defend herself and her home from a potentially lethal attack, if necessary and unavoidable.
A picture on Oct. 4 showing a poster that warns tourists in Florida about a state law that lets people use deadly force to defend themselves carried an incorrect credit.
Another provision of that law says that a person can use deadly physical force to defend against a robbery or an attempted robbery.
The judge also decided to tell the jury that police officers are justified in using deadly physical force to defend themselves or another person if they are in the course of making an arrest or preventing an escape from custody.
One of the statutes, Section 35.30, says that a police officer is justified in using deadly physical force to defend himself or a third person if he is in the course of making an arrest or preventing an escape from custody.
Los Angeles County prosecutors outlined their reasoning in an 11-page memo made public Monday, saying Officer Eden Medina reasonably believed the teenager posed a deadly threat and used "reasonable force" to defend himself and others.
