NV #1 Self Defense

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NEVADA JURY INSTRUCTIONS

(Nevada Practicing Attorneys Council; Washoe County)

NV #1 Self Defense

NRS 200.200 provides that if a person kills another in self-defense, it must appear that

1.  The danger was so urgent and pressing that, in order to save his own life, or to prevent his  receiving great bodily harm, the killing of the other was absolutely necessary; and

2. The person killed was the assailant, or that the slayer had really, and in good faith, endeavored to decline any further struggle before the mortal blow was given.