REAL LAWYER: NEW Minnesota Duty-to-Retreat Law: What's it MEAN?

Two days ago the Minnesota Supreme Court filed its ruling in the case of State v. Blevins, a case in which the defendant pulled out a machete on a train platform and brandished it at several people. The defendant was charged with felony assault, and raised the legal defense of self-defense. At a bench trial the judge ruled that the defendant's conduct could not qualify as self-defense because he failed to satisfy Minnesota's generalized legal duty to retreat in the context of self-defe...