When the first paragraph is so full of weighted suppositions about what happened that night, I see no need to read the entire article. The author is strongly biased.
Chances are, Zimmerman would still have been found not guilty without the Stand Your Ground law. All that law does is to try to specify what a self-defense situation is. However, a self-defense situation does not need to be spelled out in law for a jury to recognize when a defendant has exercised his right to defend himself.
Had Trayvon been raised in a culture that censures physically attacking people, he would still be alive today, regardless of Zimmerman's actions.
Trayvon was a vigilante, pure and simple.
The SYG law was NOT used by the defense. It was not even brought into consideration. The verdict was a straight "self-defense where retreat is impossible and life is in danger" situation. Zimmerman probably would have been exonerated even the most rabidly liberal states.
But your last paragraph is right on......the problem is the poisonous urban black "hood" culture.
The SYG law was NOT used by the defense. It was not even brought into consideration. The verdict was a straight "self-defense where retreat is impossible and life is in danger" situation. Zimmerman probably would have been exonerated even the most rabidly liberal states.
But your last paragraph is right on......the problem is the poisonous urban black "hood" culture.
He WAS found not guilty WITHOUT the stand your ground law.
SYG was NOT the defence in this case; basic self defense was argued and won.
This is a follow-up attack on our freedoms and 2nd Amendment. It is all made up conjecture and BS.
Chances are, Zimmerman would still have been found not guilty without the Stand Your Ground law.
SYG was not a factor.
Zimmerman was on his back with Martin on top pummelling his skull into the pavement.
How the Hell could he have retreated?