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

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

[marktwain]

It appears that the panel was not able to give a simple explanation of the law. I suspect that the purpose was not to educate, but to convince the public that the law should be repealed, because it removed power from prosecutors and law enforcement.

[Venturer]

Since when is 100 people a crowd?

[pepsionice]

The only flaw in the law professor’s statement...there’s no explanation over your loss of due process after you were shot and killed by the attacker in the first place. From six feet under, there isn’t much due process.

[kcvl]

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. 

[ronnie raygun]

Your individual right to protect yourself will be given to law enforcement who will show up after the fact to do the necessary paperwork.

[SERE_DOC]

What this over-educated clown fails to address is the criminal does not give a crap about society or the inalienable right to protect ones self.

So like it or not the criminal's only right is to "assume room temperature" while in the commission of a crime.

It saves the taxpayer money and removes a POS from the gene pool.

[ctdonath2]

Automatic immunity violates due process? WTF?

[kcvl]

Living Up To Rosa Parks’s Legacy

By PATRICIA BROUSSARD
Wednesday, Nov. 02, 2005

If America is to maintain the international prestige it has gained on the back of Rosa Parks, it must monitor itself and it must seek the higher ground whenever and wherever possible.

In all honesty, it’s not looking good. One ugly recent development is the State of Georgia’s Voter ID Law - which will predictably harm poor voters, who tend disproportionately to be black. Could the voter qualification question of ‘How many bubbles are in a bar of soap’ be far behind?

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20051102_broussard.html#bio

[dennisw]

I am *shocked* this .edu drone is black! That she would want to limit the defense of law abiding citizens against drugged-up, predatory black yoofs. Of which her beloved saint Treyvon was most likely one
Quite often it is older blacks who pull a gun on a predator yoof and teach him a lesson or send him to the happy hunting ground

[Lazamataz]

How did I know?

[HiTech RedNeck]

inFAMoUsly obtuse... her students are getting cheated with a bunch of feelgood talk that illuminates zilch.

[HiTech RedNeck]

To this “lady” apparently “due” doesn’t mean something prescribed by law. SYG provides an affirmative defense to a tort claim in constrained circumstances that must be proven if civil suit is brought. Feelgoodist professors don’t like such bright lines in law.

[JamesA]

If someone breaks into my house, there they’ll die just the same as if they try to car jack me, they will be dead. I don’t think if someone breaks into your house, it should be your duty to find an escape out the back door or window. The law should be approved nation wide.

[HiTech RedNeck]

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

[dennisw]

She is a perfessor n edumacator at FAMU a taxpayer supported university.....meaning she lives off the private sector white (and Asian) man's taxes. Sad to say but all in all blacks don't pay much taxes unless it is sales tax and gaoline taxes. They have various schemes and work arounds. Or are public sector employees, come April 15th they are simply returning some taxpayer money they did some useless work for to get a gov’t paycheck

FAMU wiki>>>>>
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, commonly known as Florida A&M or FAMU, is the nation's largest historically black university by enrollment,[3] is located in Tallahassee, the Florida state capital, and is one of eleven member institutions of the State University System of Florida. FAMU is also one of Florida's land grant universities. The University is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.

[trebb]

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.

The only flaw in the law professor’s statement...there’s no explanation over your loss of due process after you were shot and killed by the attacker in the first place. From six feet under, there isn’t much due process.

Yep -she's firmly on the "Let the perp commit the crime - even if you have to die in the process, so the perp can have his day in court" side of things.

[Jed Eckert]

On May 20, Mt. Olive Missionary Baptist Church was the setting for an educational forum on the Stand Your Ground Law sponsored by the Eta Eta Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated.

Eta Eta Omega

"About US: Eta Eta Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. is the first Greek letter organization formed in the black community of Ft. Pierce, Fl."

The usual suspects also hate this law because the 'victim's' family can no longer sue for damages in civil court.

[thethirddegree]

don’t think if someone breaks into your house, it should be your duty to find an escape out the back door or window.

That is exactly the advice my wife's first husband, a retired state trooper, gave me. Didn't buy it.

[Graybeard58]

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

Glad you mentioned that little fact.

[Rapscallion]

Right. Some pinhead professor wants to repeal the law.The correct anwer is to carry concealed...if beset...use the Getz Solution...shoot and walk away. Don’t wait around to be a victim of the “in-justice system”.