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Opinion: Stand your ground a dangerous smoke screen that should be repealed in Ohio
Douglas Rogers
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Under Ohio s stand-your-ground law, deadly force or great bodily harm does not have to be threatened to use deadly force in response.
Due to the complexity of the law, non-lawyers might misunderstand what Ohio self-defense law was before stand your ground  became the law as the result of the passage of Senate Bill 175, and what self-defense law is now.
That was apparent from an April 5 Dispatch article on the enactment of the new law.
Before April 11, self-defense law did not require “a person to attempt to retreat in public before firing a weapon. ....

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