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Originally Posted by Guest
If you take a look at the 3 cases of STAND YOUR GROUND in Florida...
1. A police wannabe who picked a fight with a younger stronger male and when he was about to get his ass kicked pulled out his gun and killed him. I think after some of the thinks he did after award the jury made a mistake.
2. A middle aged white male objected to music playing from a car full of teenage boys when they wouldn't turn it off he opened his car door, reached into the car, opened the glove box, took out his weapon and started shooting. He is still in jail.
3. An older former police officer object to a younger male texting in the movie theater even though the movie had not yet started. In hindsight the younger man was checking in on the sitter and saying he was turning his phone off. The older guy picked a fight with the wrong guy and when he was losing he took out his gun and shot the man dead.
In each case the people killed were unarmed and not the aggressor.
So what is the point of this new law?
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So let me ask is it the "Stand Your Ground"law or the inability of others as to its criminal investigation, interpretations and prosecution. Or is it perhaps, that no matter how thoroughly a case is investigated some people have already passed judgment based on their read of newspaper headlines.
The Treyvon Martin case was sensationalized, politicized and televised . The three cases you cited did not garner the attention as the Martin
case. Sensationalism seems to drive such cases these days .
Was Casey Anthony guilty or not guilty?????? According to a jury of her peers, not guilty.
I respect the law and I respect everyone's right to due process and the right to "benefit of innocence until proven guilty".
So in my view the Stand Your Ground law is good law . The issue that should be debated is not the law itself , but a review and discussion of criminal investigation, and our court system demanding that both be conducted in a professional and non-partisan manner in order to obtain a factual and objective finding based within a certainty given the best investigative technologies, etc available.
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