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Originally Posted by **********
I can't because it wouldn't be as interesting. Here's the issues:
He already said he was afraid for his life. He referred to them as "thugs' and used "thug music" in his descriptions. He told the police they had a gun or weapon of some kind, but never said this to the woman he was with.
It may not be racially motivated, but it seems like it might have been.
Regardless, the real question about this trial is what happens next. Will be get off on the "Stand your Ground" law?
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**********, your views are based primarily, if not entirely, on other's opinions of media reports, usually over-sensationalized.
The fact is all states have stand your ground jury instructions, I'm using the "stand your ground" terminolgy since you've globbed on to the phrase.
For instance, here in California,
California Criminal Law instruction 3470:
"A defendant is not required to retreat. He or she is entitled to stand
his or her ground and defend himself or herself and, if reasonably
necessary, to pursue an assailant until the danger of (death/bodily
injury) has passed."
There is no duty to retreat from an attacker anywhere in the USA.