In Florida the Castle Law applies to defending your home. The Stand Your Ground Law applies everywhere else - even your front yard. If you're outside your house Stand Your Ground is the applicable law.
How about if you’re lying on your back getting beat up and can’t retreat? Does it apply then?
Yes same in GA. Castle law is inside your home and stand your ground is out in your driveway. Anywhere else its just plain old self defense. Thats why you CC in the first place.
"In Florida the Castle Law applies to defending your home. The Stand Your Ground Law applies everywhere else - even your front yard. If you're outside your house Stand Your Ground is the applicable law."
What is your support for this?
"Stand your ground" only applies when a person is choosing between the option to retreat, and the option to stand ground. If Zimmerman was overwhelmed by superior force, then he doesn't have the option of retreat available. The issue becomes whether or not he is justified in resort to deadly force; not whether or not he had a right to stand his ground.
Which of the two was closing distance? That's the question I would ask. My impression is that Zimmerman had given up any chase. He had given up on closing distance with Martin.