# Legal question about being a giant DICK to your neighbor...

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 5, 2012, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-question-about-being-a-giant-dick-to-your-neighbor/633797 "2012-09-05T22:02:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mdcastle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@Mdcastle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mdcastle)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2012, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-question-about-being-a-giant-dick-to-your-neighbor/633797/41 "2012-09-10T01:00:55Z")

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> [@jtgain](#):
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> I don’t believe that any U.S. state requires a person to retreat inside his own home. The debate on “Stand Your Ground” laws are over whether one should be required to retreat outside his home. AFAIK, no state still follows the old English common law that requires you to “retreat to the back wall” of the house.
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> As to your second point, I doubt any judge would rule that the burglar accepted your proposed contract terms when he entered your house. 😉

Some states do have a duty to retreat within your home. Minnesota is one of them, in case law but not in clearly in statutes. The governor vetoed a bill that would change it and now it appears Zimmerman has wrecked it for everybody so I don’t see it ever changing now.

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