How Florida legislature wrote the Stand Your Ground Law, and George Zimmerman got away with murder: “If George Zimmerman was not engaged in an unlawful activity and was attacked in any place where he had a right to be, he had no duty to retreat and had the right to stand his ground and meet force with force, including deadly force if he reasonably believed that it was necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or another or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony.” By taking away from the jury the simple notion that people have an obligation to “avoid the danger” or retreat if they could do so safely, they were, essentially, authorizing stupid, venal and, as in this case, often tragic behavior. dangelber/blog/view_blog.php?ID=268
Posted on: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 18:45:49 +0000
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