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Florida changes 'Stand Your Ground' onus on prosecutor now
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| 05/05/2017
| Jim Rosica
Posted on 05/06/2017 6:58:16 AM PDT by rstrahan
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To: Dilbert San Diego
“Yep. They are telling a story now, of how Travyon dreamed of being a pilot. Who knew???”
Yeh,Right ! Someone heard him say “he was flying high” and zap! He wanted to be a pilot....
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posted on
05/06/2017 9:50:26 AM PDT
by
litehaus
(A memory toooo long.............)
To: headstamp 2
“Im hearing St. Trayvon got a posthumous degree from some college now.”
Still ain’t gonna get him a job.
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posted on
05/06/2017 10:13:43 AM PDT
by
PLMerite
("Government should be done to cattle and not human beings." - John Milius)
To: headstamp 2
Im hearing St. Trayvon got a posthumous degree from some college now.What next, a posthumous Nobel Prize?
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posted on
05/06/2017 10:20:20 AM PDT
by
varon
(There's always room for one more on the hanging tree.....)
To: Mr. Douglas
After the Trayvon Martin fiasco (I realize they never used the “Stand Your Ground” defense) It helps keep Judges in line by zooming in on a specific area to keep their personal opinions and public pressure out of the courtroom.
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posted on
05/06/2017 10:21:41 AM PDT
by
trebb
(Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
To: Mr. Douglas
Some terms just need to be spelled out and handled in a different way for the libidiots!
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posted on
05/06/2017 10:28:26 AM PDT
by
SgtHooper
(If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
To: varon
“He was just turning his life around”
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posted on
05/06/2017 10:45:53 AM PDT
by
headstamp 2
(Ignorance is reparable, stupid is forever)
To: rstrahan; eyeamok; Mr. Douglas; Sasparilla
I seem to always be dealing with a prejudice against lawyers. I have this preconceived notion that they spend three years in classes learning how to distort and ignore our Constitution and English Common Law. Every time I think I am being released from this affection, I encounter an article like this and spiral downward again.
To: rstrahan
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posted on
05/06/2017 11:06:02 AM PDT
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: HiTech RedNeck
If the Son has been shining down on you all day it doesn’t matter so much if the sun has been beating down on you all day.
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posted on
05/06/2017 11:08:04 AM PDT
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: TexasGator
The burden on the prosecutor instead of the defendant is a huge change. You are going from a disadvantaged starting point of having to prove you are not guilty, versus you starting from an assumed position of innocence, and the prosecutor having to prove you are guilty.
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posted on
05/06/2017 11:24:52 AM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Secret Agent Man
This has no impact on the trial. It only impacts pre-trial hearing.
To: TexasGator
Okay, but if they cannot prove it, it may mean they do not go to trial in the first place, and waste pubic funds prosecuting a case they lose. They generally dont go to trial with cases they have a real risk of losing.
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posted on
05/06/2017 3:36:36 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: eyeamok
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posted on
05/06/2017 6:33:48 PM PDT
by
Popman
To: Rurudyne
The red neck is a sign of honor.
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posted on
05/06/2017 8:36:13 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: TexasGator
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posted on
05/06/2017 8:39:37 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: Secret Agent Man
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posted on
05/06/2017 8:41:09 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: Secret Agent Man
And somebody needs to explain how this would not carry over into what the jury (if that kind of trial) is expected to determine. “Did the state show something” is different from did the defendant fail to show something.
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posted on
05/07/2017 6:42:27 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
All i know is its better to start out with a presumption of innocent until proven guilty, instead of assumed guilty and forced to prove innocence.
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posted on
05/07/2017 8:01:05 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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