New Podcast – Tennessee’s Castle Doctrine – its not what you think it should be

John Harris discusses Tennessee’s “castle doctrine” in the April 23, 2021, podcast release. The “castle doctrine”, at least as it exists in Tennessee is not what many people think it is. It is instead a set of conditions that under the particular facts of a specific incident address whether someone has a duty to retreat prior to resorting to deadly force. It also creates and qualifies a rebuttable presumption regarding the element of “imminent fear of death or serious bodily injury”