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During discussion of self-defense instructions, Tony Henderson argued that Sarah Boone had no duty to retreat because she was in her home. William Jay argued that her restraint of Torres in the suitcase supported treating her as the initial aggressor and raised a duty to retreat.
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Boone's presence in her home figured in the dispute over a duty-to-retreat instruction, with the defense denying such a duty and the State arguing that she was the initial aggressor.