Supreme Court of South Carolina· 9/26/2011

State v. Dickey

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716 S.E.2d 97
394 S.C. 491
2011 S.C. LEXIS 308

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concluding that the accused, an armed security guard for an apartment complex, was without fault in bringing about the difficulty as a matter of law because he was exercising his right to eject trespassers in good faith
concluding \the uncontroverted facts establish[ed] as a matter of law that Petitioner had no other probable means of avoiding the danger other than to act as he did\ (emphasis added)
finding defendant was not at fault in bringing about difficulty despite pulling loaded weapon on victim when victim began advancing towards defendant in an aggressive manner
listing as one of the elements of self-defense the defendant's actual belief that \he was in imminent danger of losing his life or sustaining serious bodily injury\
stating one “is justified in using deadly force in self-defense when ... a reasonably] prudent man of ordinary firmness and courage would have entertained the same belief’
providing a person may use reasonable force in defending himself when he “believed he was in imminent danger” and “a reasonable prudent man ... would have entertained the same belief’ (citation omitted)

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Judges: Toal, Kittredge, Hearn, Pleicones, Beatty

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