{"id":87,"date":"2011-06-28T19:38:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T19:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monachuslex.com\/?p=87"},"modified":"2011-06-28T19:38:40","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T19:38:40","slug":"governor-corbett-signs-self-defense-bill-into-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"Governor Corbett Signs Self Defense Bill Into Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/monachuslex.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Governor-Corbett.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-88\" title=\"Governor Corbett\" src=\"https:\/\/monachuslex.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Governor-Corbett-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"Governor Corbett\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a>Moments ago, in a private ceremony in his office, Governor Tom Corbett signed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legis.state.pa.us\/cfdocs\/legis\/PN\/Public\/btCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&amp;sessYr=2011&amp;sessInd=0&amp;billBody=H&amp;billTyp=B&amp;billNbr=0040&amp;pn=1038\" target=\"_blank\">House Bill 40<\/a> into law, significantly expanding the self-defense rights of the law-abiding citizens of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/?p=46\" target=\"_blank\">As this column recently reported<\/a>, despite media characterization of the bill as simply an expansion of &#8216;Castle Doctrine&#8217;, this bill also contains a limited &#8216;Stand Your Ground&#8217; provision as well as a long anticipated legal presumption of reasonableness in certain cases of self defense.<\/p>\n<p>Citizens of Pennsylvania should take the time to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.governor.state.pa.us\/portal\/server.pt\/community\/contact\/2998\/e-mail_the_governor's_office\/465341\" target=\"_blank\">thank Governor Corbett<\/a> for signing this important piece of public safety legislation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moments ago, in a private ceremony in his office, Governor Tom Corbett signed House Bill 40 into law, significantly expanding the self-defense rights of the law-abiding citizens of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As this column recently reported, despite media characterization &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/?p=87\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,48,74,89,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-castle-doctrine","category-legal-presumptions","category-pennsylvania","category-stand-your-ground","category-state-laws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}