Law professor explains why Stand Your Ground Law might violate individual rights(FL)

tcpalm.com ^ | 26 May, 2012 | brantwilson5#293829

[amigatec]

They got due process, due to their criminal activity the Coroner processed the remains. It's that simple.

[Pollster1]

Since when is 100 people a crowd?

It's 97 more people than journalists need to use that word.

[elcid1970]

“They got due process, due to their criminal activity the Coroner processed the remains. It’s that simple.”

Wash, rinse, repeat.

Here in South Carolina if the criminal activity takes place during hours of darkness, then any wrongful death lawsuit by family members is DOA.

[StAnDeliver]

"Before a crowd of approximately 100 people, Patricia Broussard, an FAMU constitutional law professor"

FAMU law = joke. Restarted in '02 with a focus on 'sivvil rites lahw', only got full ABA accreditation in '09, huge 1L attrition, >50% percentile LSATs, >60% avg. 1st bar pass.

Broussard wins the annual 'spirit' award named after the deposed Dean.

"The school drew media attention because a state-conducted audit found that staff on the payroll were not performing any work for the school. A payroll audit in 2005 led to the firing of the dean, Percy Luney Jr., although he was never directly linked to the deal, and the conclusion of Shirley Cunningham, Jr.'s faculty position. The interim university President, Castel Bryant, subsequently reported that Cunningham had not undertaken any work at the institution, despite his salary.

[SeaHawkFan]

Broussard is an associate professor at Florida A& M College of Law who joined the faculty after teaching at Howard University of Law for seven years.

Howard Law School has a pretty good reputations; FAMU Law, not so good.

[GoldenPup]

Law professor explains why Stand Your Ground Law might violate individual rights

UNMITIGATED BULLSHIT!!

[PapaBear3625]

The article notes that, since 2005, there have been around 200 cases of Stand Your Ground self-defense killings. In the same period of time, Florida has had only 12 executions.

What the law professors are worried about is that Stand Your Ground creates a far more effective deterrent than the death penalty does, the sentence is carried out on the spot, and there is no appeal nor legal arguments.

[dennisw]

That's the truth! You figured out the real reason....and good Memorial Day to you PapaB

SYG is the substitute death penalty for feral miscreants who are out to kill you. And since the lib lawyers have stalled executions (into perpetuity) then SYG is what we have left. No wonder lib lawyers and black race agitators want to get rid of SYG

[PapaBear3625]

Automatic immunity violates due process? WTF?

She's talking about the "due process" right of the shot thugs and their families to sue the shooter and to demand the shooter be put in jail for excessive force and violating the constitutional rights of the thug. It provides fewer opportunities for lawyers to litigate endlessly.

[StAnDeliver]

Fort Pierce

And this Ft. Pierce SYG case - decided just 10 days ago -- didn't come up as a topic.

An illegal alien successfully used SYG despite covering up the crime scene and lying to the police!

"A jury found Thursday afternoon that a Fort Pierce man was justified in stabbing and killing a man under Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law...Gilberto Galvez not guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Carlos Pereza in the early morning hours of March 19, 2011...

Isenhower argued to jurors that Galvez' attempts to hide evidence — putting Pereza in his car and pushing it across the street, cleaning blood off the driveway, hiding the knife and bloody clothes on top of the house and lying to police about knowing the victim — showed "consciousness of guilt."...

Despite the not-guilty verdict, Galvez is not a free man; he is being held at the St. Lucie County Jail to be turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials for being an illegal immigrant."

You can't read that and not come away with the knowledge that George Zimmerman is going to be a wealthy man when all is said and done. Lawsuit, book deal, you name it.

[PapaBear3625]

And a happy Memorial Day to you as well. I’m enjoying a period of relaxation before taking my daughter out on her driving lesson...

[chainsaw]

Since when is 100 people a crowd?

When you plan a seed it grows. That is true even for weeds.

[rawcatslyentist]

So pounding someones head into a pulp is now due process?

Dream on commie!

[Zeppo]

It was quite evident that the cases used to illicit audience participation were quite confusing.

illicit?

Western civilization is doomed.

[OldMissileer]

It just goes to figure. Another one of Holder's (ignorant) people.

If I remember correctly Howard University lost it's accreditation many years ago. This POS was teaching crap at a crap institution and is presently still doing both. Florida A&M, another joke.

[MindBender26]

You have to be pretty incompetent to be fired by Howard!

[aruanan]

Before a crowd of approximately 100 people, Patricia Broussard, an FAMU constitutional law professor, explained that because of the immunity clause of the Stand Your Ground Law that was passed in 2005, the controversial law might violate a person’s right to due process.

Poor Pat. Due process has to do with the actions the government takes with respect to someone charged with a crime. It doesn't have anything at all to do with person A defending his right to life against person B who is attacking him. Forbidding person A by law to protect his life seems to be a clear case of violating his right to life.

[OldMissileer]

SYG does not even figure in any of the known arguments made in the Zimmerman case to date.

Therein is the Big lie propagated by the Negroes, Leftist Press, and the Democrats. They are not trying to get any "justice" for that room temp thug but they are trying to use his death to tear apart the ability of citizens to protect themselves and place them back at the mercy of Prosecuting Attorneys.

They want push us faster to Totalitarian Hell by keeping us from defending ourselves from criminals, Government and individual alike.

[jrg]

an FAMU constitutional law professor

That's all you need to know.
Obviously, FAMU is known for the exceptional lawyers that it produces.

[jrg]

Broussard is an associate professor at Florida A& M College of Law who joined the faculty after teaching at Howard University of Law for seven years.

Them that can't, teach.