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(1) A person is justified in the use of force or threat to use force against another when and to the extent the person reasonably believes that such conduct is necessary to:

(a) Defend herself or himself or another against such other’s imminent use of unlawful force;

(b) Prevent or terminate such other’s unlawful entry into or attack upon an occupied structure; or

(c) Prevent or terminate the offender’s trespass on, or other tortious or criminal interference with, either real or personal property lawfully in the person’s possession, or which the person has a legal duty to protect, or in the possession of another who is a family or household member.

(2) A person is justified in the use of force likely to cause death or serious bodily harm only if the person reasonably believes such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or serious bodily harm to herself or himself or another person.

(3) The defendant has the burden of producing sufficient evidence to raise a reasonable doubt of his or her culpability when the defendant raises self-defense as an affirmative defense.