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Originally Posted by dyna mo
**********, 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.
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Hi Dynamo,
Of course my views are based on media reports because of course I wasn't there, and only the courtroom highlights are being shown.
I'm trying to dismiss all the hype and centre around the core basics: 1 Guy shot another guy, claimed self defines, even though no other weapon was found".
No one, not even his fiancé, can confirm his story. After the incident, he ran away and didn't call the police. According to the kids in the car, no one got out of the car.
Was the shooter really afraid? Or was he just full of hate? If he was afraid, what was he afraid of? If the kids said or did nothing except for being black and playing loud music, did he shoot at them because they were black? Is he afraid of people just because they are black? He shot something like 6 or 7 times at the car. He shot 3 or 4 times, then paused, then shot 3 or 4 times more. What state of mind was he in?
If no proof comes up, I really, really hope he goes to jail for this. If there's no gun, and if the kids didn't threaten him etc, and he basically acted out for no reason but still gets away with it thanks to the Stand your Ground Law, it will be a really sick, sad and twisted day, even worse than the day Zimmerman got away with murder.