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If you use your right for Castle Doctrine, are you still arrested by the police? Friend of mine just told me that even if you are justified in defending yourself in your home, the officer that shows up will arrest you anyways and you can still be found guilty.

This basically makes Castle Doctrine useless.

If you use your right for Castle Doctrine, are you still arrested by the police? Friend of mine just told me that even if you are justified in defending yourself in your home, the officer that shows up will arrest you anyways and you can still be found guilty. This basically makes Castle Doctrine useless.

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Not a lawyer, but... People who exercise their right to self defense can usually be detained, yes. But once they figure out what happened, and determine that no foul play was suspected, they can then be let go without being charged (an arrest denotes a formal charge).