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NV NRS200.120

NV NRS200.120 - Nevada Nevada Revised Statutes.

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NV NRS200.120

Nevada Revised Statutes

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“Justifiable homicide” defined; no duty to retreat under certain NRS200.120“Justifiable homicide” defined; no duty to retreat under certain circumstances. 1.  Justifiable homicide is the killing of a human being in necessary self-defense, or in defense of an occupied habitation, an occupied motor vehicle or a person, against one who manifestly intends or endeavors to commit a crime of violence, or against any person or persons who manifestly intend and endeavor, in a violent, riotous, tumultuous or surreptitious manner, to enter the occupied habitation or occupied motor vehicle, of another for the purpose of assaulting or offering personal violence to any person dwelling or being therein. 2.  A person is not required to retreat before using deadly force as provided in subsection...

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