PER CURIAM.
Writ granted; relief denied. We agree with defendant that there is no meaningful distinction between "retreat" and "escape" for purposes of applying Louisiana's long-standing jurisprudential rule that a person has no absolute duty to retreat from a life-threatening situation, but that the possibility of retreat is a factor in determining whether the use of deadly force in response was justified under all of the circumstances of the lethal encounter.
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