If 'Stand your ground' was good enough for him it should be good enough for 'white' George Zimmerman.
If criminals would figure out that it’s a “bad idea” to attack an armed “victim”, there wouldn’t be so many “Stand your Ground” cases, would there?
They are not using the stand your ground defense and the cases aren’t even similar.
If 'Stand your ground' was good enough for him it should be good enough for 'white' George Zimmerman.
If 'Stand your ground' was good enough for him it should be good enough for 'white' George Zimmerman.
Z was on the ground, with a big mother on top of him, banging his head against the concrete. ‘Stand Your Ground’ does not apply and is unnecessary if you have no means of escape.
Not all self defense in Florida is Stand Your Ground related, right? SYG doesn’t seem to apply to Zimmerman, because he wasn’t at at his house etc.
Actually, Zimmerman’s defense would be well advised to not use SYG, because the fastest way to kill a law is to overuse it when other laws are more appropriate.
In this case, based on the evidence, Zimmerman walks with a self-defense defense. It is pretty open and shut. The autopsy of Martin was inconclusive as to their relative positions, but could have happened in only two ways:
either they were calmly facing each other, Zimmerman raised his gun to heart level and shot, which is unlikely, or it is as he said, that Martin tackled him.
No comparison of the two cases.
Can someone explain to me why Zimmerman even *wants* to cite the Stand Your Ground law? It seems to me much more a straight case of self defense. Zim *couldn’t* leave if he wanted to because Trayvon was on his chest. Why isn’t this just self defense?
Here — post this:
It’s about time they were subpoenaed.