BOOTH, Judge.
This cause is before us on appeal from the order of the trial court granting defendant a new trial following conviction of manslaughter in the death of defendant's husband. The basis of the trial court's award of a new trial was the court's failure to instruct, over objection, that defendant had no duty to retreat from her home before justifiably acting in self-defense, as set forth in Florida Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases 2.11(d):
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