Legal experts warn that Texas homeowners cannot justify using force against squatters under the state's castle doctrine unless certain conditions are met.
Texans have been warned by legal experts not to heed Governor Greg Abbott's remarks that the state's castle doctrine allows them to use force against squatters.'In Texas, anyone 'squatting' in your home is breaking the law,' Abbott wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on Friday, adding that squatters were violating state laws including criminal trespass.He said that 'the Texas Castle Doctrine empowers Texans to use force to defend themselves & their property.
'Geoffrey Corn, a professor of criminal law at Texas Tech University's School of Law, explained that the castle doctrine 'is a qualification to the traditional requirement to retreat when it is safe to do so before resorting to deadly force in self-defense.'But 'you cannot self-generate that threat, meaning you forfeit the right of self-defense if you initiate the unlawful aggression,' Corn told Newsweek.
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