AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning firearms and self-defense.
force is necessary to immediately prevent or terminate the other
person's trespass on or criminal interference with property lawfully in
the person's possession, lawfully in possession of a member of the
person's immediate family, or belonging to a person whose property the
person has authority to protect. However, a person:
(1) is not justified in using deadly force; unless and
(2) does not have a duty to retreat;
only if that force is justified under subsection (a).
(d) A person is justified in using reasonable force, including deadly
force, against another person and does not have a duty to retreat if
the person reasonably believes that the force is necessary to prevent or
stop the other person from hijacking, attempting to hijack, or otherwise
seizing or attempting to seize unlawful control of an aircraft in flight.
For purposes of this subsection, an aircraft is considered to be in flight
while the aircraft is:
(1) on the ground in Indiana:
(A)
after the doors of the aircraft are closed for takeoff; and
(B) until the aircraft takes off;
(2) in the airspace above Indiana; or
(3) on the ground in Indiana:
(A) after the aircraft lands; and
(B)
before the doors of the aircraft are opened after landing.
(e) Notwithstanding subsections (a), (b), and (c), a person is not
justified in using force if:
(1) the person is committing or is escaping after the commission
of a crime;
(2) the person provokes unlawful action by another person with
intent to cause bodily injury to the other person; or
(3) the person has entered into combat with another person or is
the initial aggressor unless the person withdraws from the
encounter and communicates to the other person the intent to do
so and the other person nevertheless continues or threatens to
continue unlawful action.
(f) Notwithstanding subsection (d), a person is not justified in using
force if the person:
(1) is committing, or is escaping after the commission of, a crime;
(2) provokes unlawful action by another person, with intent to
cause bodily injury to the other person; or
(3) continues to combat another person after the other person
withdraws from the encounter and communicates the other
person's intent to stop hijacking, attempting to hijack, or
otherwise seizing or attempting to seize unlawful control of an
aircraft in flight.