Posted on 06/23/2012 1:22:21 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law is complicating matters for prosecutors rushing to convict George Zimmerman. The law is clear that residents can meet force with force when they feel threatened.
Florida's Stand Your Ground law allows residents to use deadly force to defend themselves or their property, and when doing so, protects them from prosecution. This law may derail the prosecution of defendant George Zimmerman in the much-publicized case of a neighborhood watch volunteer who shot and killed teenager Trayvon Martin.
State prosecutors see the case as open-and-shut, arguing that Martin was simply a kid buying a soda at a convenience store. When Zimmerman called 911 to report a suspicious individual, police told him to stand down until they arrived; he did not.
While authorities note that the one possibly threatening detail about Trayvon Martin was a simple hooded sweatshirt, George Zimmerman claims that Martin physically attacked him.
Florida's Stand Your Ground law is clear: an individual has no duty to retreat from a public confrontation in which he or she reasonably perceives a danger. As the Miami Herald notes, Floridians are allowed to "meet force with force." In fact, Zimmerman was not initially arrested by police at all for this very reason.
And, the law receives strong support. A recent Quinnipiac University poll finds support for the state law at 56 percent, with only 35 percent opposed to it.
While he was eventually charged with second degree murder, state prosecutors have no easy task to explain why Stand Your Ground should not apply to George Zimmerman. In fact, anyone facing charges of murder or homicide in Florida should discuss their situation with an experienced criminal defense attorney who will hold the prosecution accountable for proving their case at every step and ensure the defendant's rights under state law are respected.
“Whether found guilty or not guilty, there will be riots.”
“I respectfully disagree. The white folks (You know us soda crackers, honkies etc.) will be mad if he is found guilty but will be civil about it.”
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No problem, but I think you misunderstood my saying there would be riots whether guilty or not guilty.
Yes, we ‘honkies’ have evolved past rioting. I am saying that the blacks will riot either out of joy (a guilty verdict) or rage (a not guilty verdict).
Look what happens when their hometown team wins a championship. They burn and loot their own neighborhoods. Besides that, the TV’s they aquired during the Rodney King riots are now outdated and they need to catch up to new advanced technologies like 3-D.
I know it may sound racist, but their history proves me correct.
No, there won't be.
This is pre-election Alinsky theater.
Once the election is over, the case will be quietly dropped. State-controlled media will not even mention it.
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Just drumming up business --
He may have been 6'2" in high-priced tennis shoes, but it appears he was 5'11".
It wasn't even a 911 dispatch. It was the nonemergency number for the Sandford police. That's clear from the FAQ issued by the City of Sanford, Zimmerman's written statement, and from the charging affidavit by Corey.
“Well Gee, who could possibly argue with Rape and murder.”
(And child abduction.)
Apparently, you are.
If you are saying exceptions exist, like for rape, murder and child abduction, then “never” does not apply.
However, if you insist upon using “never,” then you are arguing against flagging down a police car and pointing out a murderer, rapist or child abduction.
The use of the word “never” allows for no exceptions.
Your call, either it is “never” or it is not.
I don't think so.
Anyway that's why it's important to try this case in the court of public opinion to point out the insanity of the race hustlers.
After all of the publicity about this, an NAACP forum held in Sanford last week only drew 100 people out of a population of 55,000 -- and you can bet that most of those were outsiders transported in for the event that fizzled.
You are superior to everyone. You must get so worn out sighing.
Thanks — Bookmarked.
Thanks — Bookmarked.
ONOZ! A law is getting in the way of a prosecutor! [facepalm] Uh, since the prosecutor is charged with ENFORCING the laws, how could a law possibly get in their way, unless they're engaging in agenda-driven extralegal (possibly ILlegal) prosecutions?
It's hard to tell how this will play out. The prosecutor obviously wants a show trial. The judge seems determined to have Zimmerman convicted. So far whatever Benjamin Crump has demanded, he has gotten, and he's not going to want to abandon the case even after the election. This is the only thing giving him any national exposure.
Those three videos left out certain pertinent facts that would have answered the questions asked and helped the producers' unbelief and saved the Crump Law Firm money and time.
How would you like to go first and point out those omissions out???
An interesting series of videos totally meaningless to this case.
If the gun was so well ‘hidden’ and ‘under’ Martin while he was on top of Zimmerman, how is it that Zimmerman stated that during the struggle his jacket was pulled open , revealing the gun, and Martin said, “You’re gonna die now, m*****f****r” ?
May I ask why you keep trying to defend Martin? I don’t have a problem with you for doing so, but at least try and get some credible proof.
Obama needs the votes badly. He'll do anything.
You guys are being so civil, I had to check to see if I was still on Free Republic. Not a single “moron” or “idiot” comment made.
Does a dispatcher have the authority to give orders? Nobody ever answers that question, but in any case that was the wimpiest command imaginable if that is what they call it.
Sorry for the double post - I’ve never managed that despite my superior intellect even when trying to do so.
Your incorrect, baseless and unsupported post is just one of three on this thread alone and one of hundreds on this subject that has been discussed for months here and elsewhere.
I’m simply setting up an all purpose post to have some chance of educating those who can’t be bothered to do it themselves.
There are hundreds of other complexities but its probably best to keep it as straightforward as possible to at least give people a general correct application of the SYG law.
Have a nice day. ;-)
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