SHOCKING New Duty-to-Retreat Law! The DISSENT!

Last week 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. Today we read the DISSENT of that ruling. We previously read the majority opinion of that ruling HERE. 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 h...