WELLS, Judge.
In her brief, defendant contends that she is entitled to a new trial because the trial judge denied her request for an instruction to the jury that a person who is attacked in his own home is under no duty to retreat and may use reasonable force in self-defense.
The law of self-defense takes on an additional dimension if the accused is threatened or assaulted by the victim on the accused's own premises. Our Supreme Court, in State v. Johnson...
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