State v. Wilkins

11 Writ granted; relief denied. We agree with defendant that there is no meaningful distinction between “retreat” and “escape” for purposes of applying Louisiana’s long-standing jurisprudential rule that a person has no absolute duty to retreat from a life-threatening situation, but that the possibility of retreat is a factor in determining whether the use of deadly force in response was justified under all of the circumstances of the lethal encounter. See State v. Brown, 414 So.2d 726, 729 (La.1982) (“Although there is not an unqualified duty to retreat the possibility of escape is a…