Iowa Annotated Statutes
Title XVI Criminal Law and Procedure (Subts. 1 — 3)
Subtitle 1 Crime Control and Criminal Acts (Chs. 687 TO 689 — 733 TO 747)
Chapter 704 Force — Reasonable or Deadly — Defenses (§§ 704.1 — 704.13)

704.3 Defense of self or another.

A person is justified in the use of reasonable force when the person reasonably believes that such force is necessary to defend oneself or another from any actual or imminent use of unlawful force.

 

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