Originally Posted by
dbrowne1
No, it's still on you and it's still an affirmative defense. The "castle doctrine" just means you have no duty to retreat in your own home and every state has that in some form or another at this point - it doesn't shift the onus to the prosecution to prove you weren't justified. It doesn't work that way anywhere. If you deliberately kill another human being, you have the burden of proving it was justified.
Same story with all of these "make my day" and "civil immunity" laws and so forth. If you actually read them, they say that you're not liable if you were justified based upon a list of criteria - you still have to prove that you satisfy those criteria, which means you can still be sued and you still have to go through discovery, and possibly even trial, to show that the law even applies to your case. So basically they add nothing of practical value to the law as it already existed.