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Minnesota Supreme Court upheld 2 second degree assault with a deadly weapon convictions against a man with a machete who was threatened by a knife at a Minneapolis light rail station.
In a split decision, the court wrote that long standing Minnesota law says that a person needs to retreat when reasonably possible, even when facing bodily harm, and that security video contradicted the man with the machetes claims.
Minnesota is one of the states that in the minority that does have a duty to retreat.
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