In their most recent legislative session, Florida lawmakers tweaked the Stand Your Ground law to shift the burden of proof in "Stand Your Ground" cases from defense attorneys to prosecutors.
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" Victor Revill, an Alabama criminal-defense attorney who has handled many Stand Your Ground claims, reviewed Brittany's case, at my request, and said that it was "Stand Your Ground all day.
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What you need to know about 'stand your ground' laws Florida's "stand your ground law," which is perhaps the strongest in the country, grants immunity to the person acting in self-defense.
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Gualtieri said "Stand Your Ground" prevented him from arresting Drejka.
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He also spoke about the state's "stand your ground" law.
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What's more, how can you stand your ground with grace?
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In court, Mr. Peraza asked for Stand Your Ground protection.
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Her Stand Your Ground hearing was scheduled for January, 2020.
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Backers of "stand your ground" laws say they help deter crime.
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Guyger's case illustrates just how barbaric stand your ground laws are.
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Police opposition hasn't swayed states to abandon "stand your ground" laws.
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Find out if your local representatives support "Stand Your Ground" laws.
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Resist the urge to follow the flow, and stand your ground.
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When you don't agree with him and you stand your ground?
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Particularly controversial are the bill's so-called "Stand Your Ground" provisions.
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The jury had been instructed to consider his stand-your-ground rights.
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Hammer helped pass "Stand Your Ground" through the GOP-led Florida Legislature.
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Stand Your Ground was introduced in the Florida legislature in December, 22006.
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The new law also includes one of those "stand your ground" provisions.
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If Brittany loses her Stand Your Ground hearing, she'll go to trial.
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During this conversation, you're going to have to stand your ground firmly.
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None of them found that "stand your ground" laws prevent violent crime.
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For one, Missouri also passed its "stand your ground" law in 210.
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"Stand your ground" laws have been around for more than a decade.
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How do you pick your battles, or decide when to stand your ground?
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Florida's law did not specify the process for applying "stand your ground" immunity.
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The shooter had attempted to hide behind the state's Stand Your Ground law.
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The state's Stand Your Ground and concealed-carry laws were largely her initiatives.
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Stand Your Ground isn't the only portion of the law that concerns critics.
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Clark claims what he has earned: righteous, defensive and stand-your-ground belligerent.
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Case brought renewed attention to 'stand your ground' law McGlockton's death brought renewed scrutiny to Florida's "stand your ground" law, in part because the county sheriff initially declined to arrest Drejka, saying that law appeared to give him immunity from prosecution.
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The most recent state to install a "stand your ground" law is Iowa, whose former governor Terry Branstad (R) signed into law in April a sweeping expansion of gun rights in the state, which included a "stand your ground" provision.
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Police initially declined to arrest Zimmerman, citing Florida's so-called "Stand Your Ground" law.
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The Iowa measure, House File 517, creates a so-called stand your ground policy.
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But it's not the first time a "stand your ground" law has created controversy.
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The framework of Florida's "stand your ground" law was changed this year, he said.
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Stand Your Ground became widely known in 2012, when the police in Sanford, Fla.
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He'll make a court appearance this afternoon in the controversial "stand your ground" case.
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Since then, a handful of women in Alabama have won Stand Your Ground immunity.
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The defendant's case was dismissed by a judge after a Stand Your Ground hearing.
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Florida became the first state to pass a Stand Your Ground law in 2005.
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I do think it's a little hard to stand your ground as a woman.
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As I wrote on a case involving another black woman invoking "stand your ground" earlier this year: The Urban Institute found that in "stand your ground" states, when white shooters kill black people, 34 percent of the resulting homicides are deemed justifiable.
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It found "moderate evidence" that "stand your ground" laws lead to increases in violent crime.
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"The Stand Your Ground law gives us an obligation to get it right," he said.
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But the gunman may not be charged because of the state's "stand your ground" law.
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Stand Your Ground I'm telling you right now, you're not getting out of this alive.
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On October 16th, in Jacksonville, Hammer delivered a long, vigorous defense of Stand Your Ground.
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Stand your ground, avoid direct eye contact, then slowly back away and do not run.
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Gualtieri also noted the framework of Florida's "stand your ground" law was changed this year.
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One solution recommended by Beard — enacted by her, really — is to cheerfully stand your ground.
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Florida changed its "stand your ground" law to make it harder to prosecute gun owners.
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It's the latest in a string of "stand your ground" cases that are sparking controversy.
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Substantial racial disparities exist in the application of "stand your ground" laws, experts have found.
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"Stand your ground" laws effectively expand the scope of what qualifies, legally, as self-defense.
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The others found increases in homicides associated with "stand your ground" and "castle doctrine" laws.
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The sheriff who investigated said the shooter was justified under the state's "Stand Your Ground" law.
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The state's controversial "stand your ground" statute protects those who use deadly force to protect themselves.
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They have been used to evoke liberty, tradition, crime and most recently stand-your-ground vigilantism.
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The local sheriff said that under "stand your ground," Michael Drejka was justified in the killing.
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In the end, Zimmerman did not argue a "stand your ground" defense and was acquitted anyway.
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Since losing her son, McBath has taken an active stance against Stand Your Ground laws. 3.
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Even Mr. Caamano's lawyer said police officers should not be allowed to invoke Stand Your Ground.
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It's important to stand your ground and fight for everything on which this country was founded.
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Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri initially declined to arrest Drejka, citing the "stand your ground" law.
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Is the hope that something similar can happen with regard to the Stand Your Ground laws?
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Previously, Gualtieri said the state's "stand your ground" laws prevented him from arresting Drejka last month.
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After her deeply personal tirade against so-called "stand your ground" propositions, the bill was defeated.
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Poem As the title indicates, this poem is an erasure of Florida's Stand Your Ground law.
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" He put it plainly: "So Utah would be what we call a Stand Your Ground state.
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Its campaign has been very successful: So far, 30 states have enacted "stand your ground" laws.
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Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri had declined to charge Drejka, citing the "stand your ground" law.
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Stand Your Ground just takes that a step further, extending the doctrine to the whole state.
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One of those laws, known as "stand your ground," was later adopted by 21 other states.
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He argued that Florida's "stand your ground" law gave him the right to shoot the teen.
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Difference between 'stand your ground' and police self-defense The "stand your ground" law says "a person" is justified in using deadly force if he or she reasonably believes it is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm, or to prevent a forcible felony.
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Alternatively, George Zimmerman, who shot and killed Trayvon Martin, was acquitted under Florida's Stand Your Ground law.
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Still, the case cast a spotlight on Florida's "stand your ground" law and demands to change it.
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With the controversy surrounding "stand your ground" laws, there have been efforts to change or repeal them.
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Haas told reporters that he found Dunn's actions were not justified under Florida's "stand your ground" legislation.
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Crump believes that "stand your ground" is being applied to the wrong person in the Drejka case.
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Above all, stand your ground and know your opinions are just as valuable as the next person's.
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The facts are not so clear that this is absolutely outside the boundaries of 'stand your ground.
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And I'm not just talking about open-carry or concealed-carry laws, or "stand your ground" laws.
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And Florida has embraced "Stand Your Ground" laws that protect the use of deadly force in public.
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Stand Your Ground gives them an additional chance to do so, if they can persuade a judge.
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In that case, the police initially declined to arrest the killer, citing the Stand Your Ground law.
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Just last year, the Legislature made it easier for defendants to invoke the "stand your ground" protections.
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Rick Scott to declare a state of emergency in order to suspend the Stand Your Ground law.
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The Stand Your Ground law became a hotly debated national issue after the police in Sanford, Fla.
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The analysis suggests that, in domestic cases, Stand Your Ground works better for men than for women.
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You have to be able to make immediate distinctions between seemingly small matters, and stand your ground.
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No rigorous study has yet determined whether "stand your ground" laws promote legitimate acts of self-defense.
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But the sheriff's office hasn't said if "stand your ground" played a role in his initial release.
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Before, the defendant/shooter used "stand your ground" as a defense and had to prove they were in fear of further body harm, the law now says the state attorney has to provide "clear and convincing evidence" that the defendant/shooter is not entitled to "stand your ground" immunities.
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Then-US Attorney General Eric Holder slammed stand your ground laws in a speech shortly after that verdict.
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If they break the boundary, it's important to stand your ground and implement conditions (more on this later!).
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Like Zimmerman, McGlockton's killer, Michael Drejka, appears to be using the Stand Your Ground law as his defense.
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Florida's "stand your ground" law, passed in 2005, received wide scrutiny and inspired similar laws in other states.
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The new session would not begin until March, but her Stand Your Ground bill had already been refiled.
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When the legislature reconvened, the Stand Your Ground bill passed, despite vehement objections from prosecutors across the state.
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It should be no surprise, then, that "stand your ground" cases in Florida have come under the spotlight.
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Generally, "stand your ground" laws allow people to respond to threats or force without fear of criminal prosecution.
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Mr. Stanley's supporters have used the episode to call for American-style "stand your ground" self-protection laws.
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McGlockton's death reopened questions that surrounded the Trayvon Martin case and the "stand your ground" law more broadly.
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Prior to Drejka's arrest, Crump said the "stand your ground" law was troubling for many people of color.
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Unsurprisingly, Florida homicides are up significantly since 2005, the year the first Stand Your Ground law was passed.
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Investigators will look at self-defense and stand-your-ground laws No arrests or charges were announced Monday.
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Could that explain the rise in homicides, given the evidence that "stand your ground" laws increase violent crime?
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Although Zimmerman did not claim a Stand Your Ground defense, the jury's instructions included language from the law.
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Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law allows people to use deadly force when they fear death or great bodily harm.
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A month after McGlockton's death, a state attorney charged Drejka with manslaughter, dismissing the "stand your ground" immunity argument.
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Some find her breaks from the Democratic caucus, including a vote to advance a "stand your ground" law, mystifying.
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The day following the shooting, Gualtieri announced that Drejka would not be arrested, citing the "stand your ground" law.
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Other black-led groups, like Dream Defenders, have been fighting for the repeal of "Stand Your Ground" in Florida.
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The film Rest in Power focuses on "Stand Your Ground" laws, which were the basis of Zimmerman's legal defense.
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A change in the law The framework of Florida's 'stand your ground' law was changed this year, Gualtieri said.
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If the bear charges, stand your ground and begin spraying it when it is 20003 to 60 feet away.
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In 2017, North Carolina lawmakers filed the Gun Safety Act, which would repeal the state's "stand your ground" law.
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Most states now have Stand Your Ground laws as well as permissive rules allowing the carrying of concealed weapons.
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The Dream Defenders were unable to marshal the political power necessary to get Stand Your Ground repealed in Florida.
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Zimmerman was acquitted in Martin's death after claiming self-defense, rather than leaning on the "stand your ground" law.
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The case has spurred debate over Florida's "stand your ground" law, considered one of the toughest in the country.
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Another aspect to both the Zimmerman and Gasser cases is "stand your ground" laws in Florida and Louisiana, respectively.
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"Stand your ground" laws, also called "castle doctrine" laws, change how people weigh the decision of using deadly force.
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"It's very rare that the N.R.A. and the Republican lawmakers who drafted and passed Stand Your Ground tell a sheriff that his version of Stand Your Ground is not applicable in this case," Benjamin L. Crump, an attorney for Mr. McGlockton's family, told The New York Times in an interview on Tuesday.
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Surveillance video of the event went viral online, sparking fresh criticism of the "stand your ground" law on social media.
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With the racially disparate application of Florida's controversial "stand your ground" law, Zimmerman was not immediately charged with killing Martin.
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In 2005 it shepherded through Florida's landmark "stand your ground" law, then repeated the feat in nearly half the states.
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However, this could be helpful to you, if you use the energy to stand your ground in conversation and negotiations!
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Pelkey was the only member of Wyoming's House Judiciary Committee who voted against the expansion of Stand Your Ground laws.
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Iowa also adopted "Stand Your Ground," so that victims of violent attacks may defend themselves without being forced to retreat.
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Why it's a controversial issue Supporters of "stand your ground" laws say they give people the right to protect themselves.
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Despite Trayvon's case highlighting Florida's "stand your ground" laws, Zimmerman ultimately opted to pursue a self-defense case and prevailed.
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The encounter also highlighted Florida's so-called Stand Your Ground law, which Mr. Raja's lawyer had cited in his defense.
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If confronted by a black bear stand your ground and speak calmly to it, establishing that you are not prey.
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Rick Scott, to suspend the state's controversial "Stand Your Ground" gun law, and he supports a ban on assault weapons.
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But there is a lesson here for individual investors: If your company tries to run you over, stand your ground.
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Two other states — Kansas and Kentucky — also place the burden of proof on the government during Stand Your Ground hearings.
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Most important, the appeals court found, was that Peraza could invoke Stand Your Ground because Peraza wasn't making an arrest.
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"We are seeing more Stand Your Ground motions," said a spokesperson for the Tampa prosecutor's office handling the Bowman case.
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This month, RAND researchers Andrew Morral and Rosanna Smart published a brief follow-up with some of the new evidence — and "stand your ground" laws now look even worse: Since publication of RAND's report, at least four additional studies meeting RAND's standards of rigor have reinforced the finding that "stand your ground" laws increase homicides.
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With the stroke of his pen in 2005, Jeb Bush, then governor of Florida, ignited enthusiasm for "stand-your-ground" laws.
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When so many people have opinions it can be stressful to know what your ground is, let alone stand your ground.
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He also advocates for expansion of controversial "stand-your-ground" laws, and minimizes the rights of states to revoke gun permits.
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On one side, you had Zimmerman who hid behind Florida's infamous stand your ground law as a reasoning for his actions.
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It did not rely on the "stand your ground" claim, but language from that law was contained in the jury instructions.
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In fact, a 2015 study in the journal Social Science & Medicine found that stand your ground is rife with racial bias.
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Nationwide, states with stand your ground witnessed a 53% average increase in the justifiable homicide rate after passage of the law.
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Previously, the shooter used "stand your ground" as a defense, and had to prove she or he feared further bodily harm.
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"You cannot provoke a fight and then hide behind 'stand your ground,'" Michele Rayner, another attorney representing McGlockton's family, said Thursday.
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Previously, a shooter who used "stand your ground" as a defense had to prove she or he feared further bodily harm.
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Previously, the shooter used "stand your ground" as a defense and had to prove she or he feared further bodily harm.
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She said it's no different from the Stand Your Ground laws in the United States that allow people to shoot intruders.
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Opponents of the program also expressed concerns about how Florida's controversial Stand Your Ground self-defense law would apply to teachers.
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He wanted to expand "stand your ground" laws in the state and lower the age limit on constitutional carry to 18.
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When she was in Bryce, she noted the number of TV news stories about people who successfully argued Stand Your Ground.
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Yet Grey's Stand Your Ground claim was rejected, because the judge questioned whether the threat to her life had been immediate.
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Officer Smith cited Alabama's Stand Your Ground law — the first time an officer in the state used it as a defense.
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Prosecutors' decision to charge or not charge Mr. Drejka will likely turn on whether they believe they can meet the burden of proof in showing that the Stand Your Ground law does not apply to the case, Marvin Lim, a lawyer who focuses on cases involving Stand Your Ground laws, said in an interview last week.
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At trial, his lawyers had tried unsuccessfully to use elements of Florida's "stand your ground" law as a defense for justifiable homicide.
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WITH the stroke of his pen in 2005, Jeb Bush, then governor of Florida, ignited America's enthusiasm for "stand-your-ground" laws.
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On the 20th, stable Saturn in Sagittarius forms a lucky triangle with Venus, helping you stand your ground during a lovers' quarrel.
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Democrats have seized on the case to renew calls for an end to "Stand Your Ground" and say it has racial overtones.
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Gasser's lawyer argued that his client was justified in defending himself with lethal force under Louisiana's so-called "stand-your-ground" law.
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In the 53 shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, George Zimmerman was acquitted after invoking the stand your ground defense.
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The numbers are hard to argue with: "Stand your ground" is a racially unjust law that leads to an increase in bloodshed.
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Of all the states with "stand your ground laws," Florida's is "probably the strongest at this point," O'Mara said, for three reasons.
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The shooting death of Markeis McGlockton raises debate about "stand your ground" laws; victims of the Toronto shooting sustain "life-changing" injuries.
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" He said the state's "stand your ground" law created a standard of how a reasonable person would react that was "largely subjective.
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He has also been the most vocal in calling for an end to the "Stand Your Ground" law opposed by the Democrats.
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Invoking Stand Your Ground, Mr. Schoen said, meant a jury in many cases would never get a chance to hear disputed evidence.
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Like many prosecutors and law enforcement officials in the state, Mr. McCabe, a Republican, has concerns about the Stand Your Ground statute.
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He had a concealed weapons license and appeared to have immunity under the "stand your ground" law, the Pinellas County Sheriff said.
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Florida was the first state to pass a Stand Your Ground law, in 2005, with strong support from the National Rifle Association.
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Mr. Archer said only four Stand Your Ground hearings were held in his jurisdiction in 2016, an area with a million people.
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Ms. Alexander was denied the immunity of the Stand Your Ground law and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Why?
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In practice, the so-called "stand your ground" laws in Florida have led to the deaths of countless Black and brown bodies.
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As The Damned, how did it feel to always stand your ground making your own style of music in the punk scene?
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During his time as a member of the Florida House of Representatives, he was a fervent supporter of Florida's Stand Your Ground law.
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He's the guy who fatally shot the unarmed teenager in 2012, only to initially escape prosecution because of Florida's Stand Your Ground law.
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But Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said the authorities will not charge Drejka for the shooting, citing the state's "stand your ground" law.
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On top of the already contentious debate about guns and "stand your ground" laws, Drejka's shooting of McGlockton also raises questions about race.
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On top of the already contentious debate about guns and "stand your ground" laws, Drejka's shooting of McGlockton also raised questions about race.
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At least two states are considering expanding so-called stand-your-ground laws, which allow residents to defend themselves if they are attacked.
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"There was no problem," Mary Anne Franks, a law professor at the University of Miami, who has extensively studied Stand Your Ground, said.
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" Second: the state's law provides immunity from criminal prosecution and civil actions, O'Mara said, "which not all other 'stand your ground' statutes do.
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A black Arkansas lawmaker made national headlines after she made impassioned remarks to her white colleagues about a proposed "stand your ground" law.
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Anonymous online chatter on sites like 4chan, meanwhile, described armed right-wing militants coming to Gainesville to test Florida's Stand Your Ground law.
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MIAMI — Florida's Stand Your Ground law was meant to make sure that average residents could defend themselves without fear of arrest or trial.
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Drejka's attorneys are not arguing a "stand your ground" case, and are instead saying the shooting was justified on general self-defense grounds.
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When the bigger trucks finally assign Bulldozer a job, he quickly realizes it's more important to stand your ground than move the earth.
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And the gorgeous mixed-media banners of Jeffrey Gibson, which demand a rethinking of laws like "Stand Your Ground" from an indigenous perspective.
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And the gorgeous mixed-media banners of Jeffrey Gibson, which demand a rethinking of laws like "Stand Your Ground" from an indigenous perspective.
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Florida's Stand Your Ground law was linked to a roughly 30 percent increase in the state's firearm-related homicide rate, researchers have found.
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Research shows that the "stand your ground" defense is significantly more successful when invoked by whites against blacks than the other way around.
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He was charged with second-degree murder, but he claimed self-defense and was ultimately acquitted under Florida's controversial "Stand Your Ground" law.
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"We have a very forward-leaning stand your ground, self-defense, justifiable homicide law, however you want to refer to it," the sheriff said.
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Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri initially said he wouldn't arrest Michael Drejka, the man who shot McGlockton, citing the state's "stand your ground" law.
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Thorp told reporters that investigators will help his office determine whether Oklahoma's "Stand Your Ground" law applies in the case of the triple shooting.
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The shooting drew attention to Florida's controversial "stand your ground" law, which Raja's attorney initially invoked in an unsuccessful attempt to dismiss his charges.
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Was setting up a Rube Goldberg-ian set of Stand Your Ground ploys really easier than say, asking a neighbor to phone the police?
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Working in the kitchen is tough; you have to stand your ground, and I think many women find it hard to cope with that.
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The neighborhood watchman who killed him, George Zimmerman, was acquitted of murder after the state's stand your ground law was included in jury instructions.
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Later that year, Hammer began to push a bill that would place the burden on the state, making Stand Your Ground defenses nearly impregnable.
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She zeroes in on things like voter suppression, stand-your-ground laws and redistricting as the systemic injustices that lurk behind the everyday ones.
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Their #BusinessforBC campaign provides talking points and background to help you stand your ground when it comes to full reproductive coverage in the workplace.
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What they're saying: Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri had said video appeared to show Drejka protecting himself as the "stand your ground" law allows.
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Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said Florida's "stand your ground" law prevented him from arresting Drejka, because McGlockton violently shoved him and Drejka feared further harm.
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The law now says the state attorney has to provide "clear and convincing evidence" the shooter is not entitled to "stand your ground" immunities.
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A judge granted the Stand Your Ground claim of Mr. Schwartzreich's client, Broward Sheriff's Deputy Peter Peraza, in the 2013 killing of Jermaine McBean.
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Sometimes you just have to stand your ground, no matter what the consequences are, and trust it will work out to your best interest.
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What you need to know about 'stand your ground' laws McGlockton came outside, approached Drejka and shoved him to the ground, surveillance video shows.
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Zimmerman's supporters said he was exercising his Second Amendment right to bear arms and Florida's "stand your ground law" could have given him immunity.
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On Wednesday, Peraza won and the state lost: Florida's Fourth District Court of Appeal agreed that Peraza was right to invoke Stand Your Ground.
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According to a 2010 investigation by the St. Petersburg Times, justifiable homicides tripled in the years since the "stand your ground" law was implemented.
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"It is important to stand your ground, but it is important to find common ground," Clinton said, echoing a popular campaign-trail riff about bipartisanship.
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The Urban Institute found that in "stand your ground" states, when white shooters kill black people, 34 percent of the resulting homicides are deemed justifiable.
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Her attorneys argued "stand your ground" laws applied, since Guyger said she thought she was in her apartment, which was on an entirely different floor.
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In other states, stand your ground measures extend self-defense protections to any place a person has a legal right to be, including their home.
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He was asked at the press conference about Louisiana's "Stand Your Ground" law, which does not require a person to retreat before using deadly force.
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Drekja told deputies he feared for his life and police at the time chose not to arrest him, citing the state's "Stand Your Ground" law.
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When you read and respond to your emotions, you're able to choose your battles wisely and only stand your ground when the time is right.
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Here's a link that lists the states with a Stand Your Ground law or similarly worded laws that have removed the duty to retreat. 5.
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In March, lawmakers also passed an expansion of "Stand Your Ground" laws, which protects those who use deadly force without retreating and claim self-defense.
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Zimmerman invoked Florida's expansive "Stand Your Ground" law, contending he was frightened that Trayvon was going to kill him and he had to protect himself.
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State Attorney Bernie McCabe said prosecutors believe there is "clear and convincing" evidence that the stand your ground law is not applicable in this shooting.
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As the case garnered national attention, onlookers speculated whether Zimmerman would try to use the Florida's "stand your ground" law as part of his defense.
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Racial stereotypes, she wrote, could cause people to misinterpret innocent behavior as something threatening or violent, and "stand your ground" laws could justify this violence.
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It takes an extreme measure of strength and discipline to suppress the natural human urges to fight or run — but instead to stand your ground.
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The law now says the state attorney has to provide "clear and convincing evidence" that the shooter is not entitled to "stand your ground" immunities.
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Dunn's actions may not be covered by Stand Your Ground, which was adopted in 2005 and is often invoked as a defense in criminal cases.
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While the "stand your ground" law was a factor in the Trayvon Martin case, Zimmerman was ultimately acquitted because of a standard self-defense protection.
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The state's "stand your ground" law, passed in 2005, allows people to meet "force with force" if they believe they're under threat of being harmed.
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She decried the fact that the bill does not exempt teachers from being able to use Stand Your Ground to justify killing a student. Rep.
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Brittany refused, telling him that it was clear she'd shot Todd in self-defense, and she asked him to enter a Stand Your Ground defense.
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Uber An Uber driver in Florida shot and killed a man, and he may not be charged because of the state's "stand your ground" law.
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"In this state, whether we like it or not, we have a very forward-leaning 'stand your ground' self-defense, justifiable homicide laws," he said.
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But the gun lobby remains strong in Florida, where the nation's first Stand Your Ground law loosened the restraints on self-defense for gun owners.
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" The question might become, when challenged on a business decision or principle: "Where are you going to stand your ground and where is too far?
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One way "stand your ground" was relevant to Zimmerman's case, however, was the initial, but later reversed, decision to let him go free without charges.
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The "stand your ground" defense was famously invoked by George Zimmerman in the shooting death of the unarmed black teen Trayvon Martin in February 2012.
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Florida was the first state to pass a stand your ground law, and it was quickly followed by about 30 other states passing similar measures.
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The case represents another look at Florida's "stand your ground" law, which most famously surfaced in George Zimmerman's 2013 trial in the killing of Trayvon Martin.
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In 2013, shortly after being elected, he broke with the Florida Sheriffs Association on the state's stand-your-ground law after the shooting of Trayvon Martin.
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So the NRA and its conservative partners, like the right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), have lobbied state lawmakers to pass "stand your ground" laws.
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"Stand your ground" captured a lot of media attention after Martin's death because it was widely believed that it would play a role in Zimmerman's defense.
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Despite the controversy surrounding "stand your ground" laws, they have spread rapidly, from only Florida in 2005 to 25 states, according to the Giffords Law Center.
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A day earlier, masked far-right extremists posted images of themselves pinning up posters that said "IT'S OK TO STAND YOUR GROUND" on Covington school grounds.
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Seventeen-year-old Martin was fatally shot by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in 2012, who also used Florida's stand-your-ground law as a defense.
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Under a change made by the Legislature last year, if a suspect raises a stand-your-ground defense, prosecutors must prove the law doesn&apost apply.
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Instead of scrapping the law, Florida lawmakers have strengthened it to force prosecutors to prove the shooting doesn&apost fall under a "stand your ground" defense.
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The case fell under Florida&aposs controversial "stand your ground" law, which allows people to use force without retreating if they feel threatened, the sheriff said.
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Supporters of stand your ground laws, including the National Rifle Association, the powerful U.S. gun lobby, see the legislation as bolstering civilians' right to protect themselves.
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Everytown for Gun Safety, one of the groups fighting the gun lobby, noted that stand your ground laws result in disproportionate harm to communities of color.
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They taught me when you should walk away because that particular argument with the government is unwinnable and when to stand your ground and argue back.
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Some two dozen states have adopted a version of Stand Your Ground, giving concealed-carry permit holders wide discretion over when they can shoot another person.
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They also give them the confidence to shoot to kill in the first place, regardless of whether the stand your ground defense holds up in court.
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"If you attack me in a non-'stand your ground' state, I've got to try to get out of it," explained CNN legal analyst Mark O'Mara.
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Why these laws make a lot of news in Florida Florida has had several high-profile cases that sparked national conversation about "stand your ground" laws.
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The state passed its "stand your ground" law in 2005, allowing people to meet "force with force" if they believe they're under threat of being harmed.
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In 2013, Sherrilyn Ifill, then president and director-counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, gave testimony in a hearing on "stand your ground" laws.
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The Falter weekly published a screenshot of the attache's Facebook page which shows him in a green shirt with the words "stand your ground" and "Frundsberg".
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But Gualtieri explained that his department would not pursue charges against Drejka because he believes his actions were protected under the state's "Stand Your Ground" law.
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Drejka was not arrested, with the Pinellas County sheriff saying the "stand your ground" law appears to give him immunity because he feared a further attack.
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He went line by line through the "stand your ground law" and court precedent to explain that it largely takes the arrest out of police hands.
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The legislators who created Stand Your Ground say there is nothing wrong with the law — only, perhaps, with the way in which it is being applied.
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Stand your ground and see if you can come out on top ... Start looking for the sneaky switches that have been made to this tricky pic!
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During the nearly 30-minute interview, Drejka said he believed he followed the "stand your ground" law and felt "vindicated" when Gualtieri initially didn't charge him.
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It's no wonder modern Florida legislators could not resist protecting actual shooters who draw and fire like John Wayne as guilt-free, "stand-your-ground" defenders.
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Amid national furor, Mr. Zimmerman was acquitted after claiming self-defense at a trial in which the Stand Your Ground law was included in jury instructions.
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Florida State Attorney Brian Haas said during a press conference on Friday that he believes Dunn's actions were not justified under Florida's "stand your ground" law.
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"Stand your ground" captured a lot of media attention after Martin's death, because it was widely believed that it would play a role in Zimmerman's defense.
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And even when "stand your ground" is allowed as a defense in court, the complex nature of relationships where domestic violence takes place can mitigate it.
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This article has been updated to clarify that ALEC embraced Florida's Stand Your Ground Law as a piece of model legislation for the rest of the country.
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The victim's lawyers say Michael Drejka's punishment is a significant victory against what they say is repeated abuse of Florida's controversial "stand your ground" self-defense law.
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While that is a factor, here, the details Normand revealed to discredit the witness account would seem to take a Stand Your Ground defense out of play.
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A 2015 American Bar Association task force report on "stand your ground laws" found the statute is unpredictable, results in racial disparities, and undermines victims&apos rights.
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The version signed into law Friday shifts that burden to prosecutors, who now must prove that a "stand your ground" defense is not applicable, according to Reuters.
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The prosecutor's decision comes despite Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri's previous comments that he wouldn't arrest and charge Drejka due to Florida's controversial "stand your ground" law.
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And a measure expanding gun rights also broadened a so-called stand your ground provision, which allows someone who feels threatened to use deadly force for protection.
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When the trial judge granted Peraza immunity, the state appealed, arguing Peraza's wasn't eligible for "stand your ground" immunity because police have their own justifiable-force law.
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Dunn, 47, claimed he shot the man in self-defense and cited Florida's "stand your ground" law, saying he knew Lopez was in possession of a hatchet.
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Stephanie Flowers had a powerful and emotional response to a white lawmaker trying to silence her in a debate on Arkansas' 'stand your ground' gun laws pic.twitter.
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So to have the confidence to stand your ground, and protect your idea for long enough for people to see it's a good idea, that's really important.
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Under Stand Your Ground, someone who feels they're at risk of bodily harm or death can legally use lethal force, rather than retreat from the perceived threat.
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The case has stirred discussion of the state's controversial Stand Your Ground law, though the state attorney hasn't said whether Dunn has invoked it in his defense.
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This means even if a person in a "stand your ground" encounter feared for their life before being killed, the law does not take that into consideration.
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Last year, two Miami police officers successfully invoked Stand Your Ground immunity when they were sued for damages in the beating of a man in a wheelchair.
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Ms. Polk feels that Florida law allows him to claim self-defense under its so-called Stand Your Ground law, made famous after the Trayvon Martin killing.
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Last summer, two Miami police officers successfully invoked Stand Your Ground immunity when they were sued for damages in the beating of a man in a wheelchair.
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And "Stand Your Ground" laws that give protections to people who use deadly force in public if they argue that they felt they were in imminent danger.
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The shooter, who tried to use the state's Stand Your Ground law to defend his use of a firearm, was convicted of first-degree murder in 2014.
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Oklahoma expanded its "Stand Your Ground" law to allow deadly force in houses of worship, and Wyoming also repealed the prohibition of guns in houses of worship.
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It is the state's version of what are commonly known as "Stand Your Ground" laws, though Washington's self-defense law dates back much farther than other versions.
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Last year, the nonpartisan RAND Corporation released a comprehensive report that found, in part, that "stand your ground" laws are linked to more violent crime, particularly homicides.
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The laws have become particularly controversial in Florida, where "stand your ground" first passed and subsequently came up after the shootings of Markeis McGlockton and Trayvon Martin.
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And if Gasser didn't have the ability to retreat, he could argue a simple self-defense standard, not a "stand your ground" standard, to justify his actions.
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And if Gasser didn't have the ability to retreat, he can argue a simple self-defense standard, not a "stand your ground" standard, to justify his actions.
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Historically, "stand your ground" laws have not always protected victims of domestic violence — and have certainly not served black women who use a gun in self-defense.
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Zimmerman was acquitted of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges in the incident, which sparked civil rights rallies and brought scrutiny of Florida's controversial "stand your ground" law.
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"I call it pre-emptive concession," said Paul Valone, president of Grass Roots North Carolina, which has helped expand concealed carry rights and a "stand your ground" law.
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"This self-appointed wannabe cop attempted to hide behind `Stand Your Ground' to defend his indefensible actions, but the truth has finally cut through the noise," Crump said.
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Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri originally declined to charge Drejka, saying one day after the shooting that the man was protected by Florida&aposs stand-your-ground law.
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Be alert, make noise, hike in groups of three or more, do not run if you encounter a bear and stand your ground if charged by a bear.
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The shooting sparked debates about "stand your ground" laws and the wide availability of guns in America — reopening questions about whether these measures are really making people safer.
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It would also create a "stand your ground" right, meaning people would not have to retreat from danger in any place they are legally entitled to be present.
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Florida's stand your ground law came under national scrutiny after George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer in Sanford, fatally shot an unarmed black teenager, Trayvon Martin, in 2012.
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And it establishes a dangerous "stand your ground" standard that will allow gun owners to shoot and claim self-defense based on their own sense of feeling threatened.
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As a state legislator, he once voted to prosecute abortion as murder, and backed Stand Your Ground legislation drafted by the gun lobby, leading to an NRA endorsement.
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The case never went to trial because Peraza argued, and the judge agreed, that he should be granted pretrial immunity through Florida's "stand your ground" self-defense law.
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In the early two-thousands, Hammer created the country's first Stand Your Ground self-defense law, authorizing the use of lethal force in response to a perceived threat.
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During the first week of June, just before public hearings got under way, the Tampa Bay Times published the results of its own investigation into Stand Your Ground.
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The NRA remained silent about the 2012 case of Marissa Alexander, who fired a warning shot at her abusive husband and whose "stand your ground" defense was rejected.
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Some states have gone the other way on guns, however, passing "Stand Your Ground" laws that broaden the situations where shooting someone in "self-defense" is legally permissible.
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Florida's "stand your ground" law removes the legal responsibility to retreat from a dangerous situation and allows the use of deadly force when a person feels greatly threatened.
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Beyond the issue of race, trials involving Florida's "stand your ground" law have also raised the question of who gets to claim that they feared for their life.
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His Stand Your Ground hearing has been scheduled for March, when prosecutors must present a mini-trial before the judge, who will decide whether to dismiss the charges.
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"The consequence of confusion over how Stand Your Ground is applied in this state can result in the loss of life of otherwise innocent people," Mr. Gillum said.
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For example, both Idaho and Wyoming enacted "Stand Your Ground" laws, which allow the use of deadly force in response to threats without the fear of criminal prosecution.
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The Stand Your Ground provision allows people to use deadly force, without first attempting to retreat from a dangerous situation, if they "reasonably believe" their lives are threatened.
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Florida's Stand Your Ground law became a national flash point after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the 2012 fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager.
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Peraza, in an unusual turn, filed a motion seeking immunity by invoking Florida's Stand Your Ground law, arguing that he feared for his life when he shot McBean.
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Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law, established in 2005, grants residents the right to use force if they reasonably believe they are at risk of great harm or death.
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At a two-day hearing last month, Lubin argued that Raja should be protected under "stand your ground" because he feared for his life when Jones pulled his gun.
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The Dream Defenders have several policy objectives aimed at helping marginalized people, but one of its larger efforts revolves around gun violence and ending Florida's "stand your ground" law.
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A third study looking at stand-your-ground laws — which go beyond castle doctrine in eliminating retreat duties outside the home as well — also found an uptick in deaths.
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I have argued elsewhere, however, that the modern gun rights movement is too expansive in its conception of self-defense, even applying it to controversial Stand Your Ground laws.
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The death of Trayvon Martin surfaced the racial dimensions of Stand Your Ground, which is used — as it was by Zimmerman — to justify white people killing people of color.
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The shooting has sparked debates about "stand your ground" laws and the wide availability of guns in America — reopening questions about whether these measures are really making people safer.
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If you can safely retreat, a "stand your ground" law is needed to justify use of force — unless you're in your home, where a "castle doctrine" law may apply.
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Even applied more rationally -- like to one's actual own home -- stand your ground places no duty on the threatened resident to retreat or to try to preserve human life.
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Zimmerman was acquitted of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges in the incident that stirred civil rights rallies and drew international attention to Florida's controversial "stand your ground" law.
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The 74-year-old retired police captain's Stand Your Ground defense was shot down by Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge Susan Barthle after weeks of testimony, according to court records.
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Another nine laws were associated with increased mortality, including so-called "stand your ground" policies that allow people to use lethal force in self-defense against a perceived threat.
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The racial disparities in justifiable homicides under stand your ground only support the notion that this law was designed to benefit white shooters and not gun owners of color.
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State prosecutors said in a statement they would appeal the decision, arguing that the officer was not entitled to have the charge dismissed under the "stand your ground" law.
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Here's the bottom line: If you know your rights, know the law, do your homework and stand your ground, no one will be able to take away your vote.
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I think people from outside the state have heard about Florida in terms of stand your ground laws and other aspects of the culture as being very pro-gun.
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You're known for your go-with-the-flow attitude, Pisces; however, when warrior planet Mars is in the sign of the bull, you'll be inclined to stand your ground.
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Zimmerman's acquittal in 2013 sparked protests across the country after he successfully used Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law to defend himself once charged with second-degree murder and manslaughter.
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Florida's "stand your ground" law, perhaps the strongest in the country, grants immunity to the person acting in self-defense and puts the burden of proof on the state.
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State Senator Dennis Baxley, a Republican who wrote the Stand Your Ground law in 2005 and is a major gun-rights backer, doubts gun-control proposals will gain traction.
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In trial, Dunn used the controversial Stand Your Ground Law for his defense, which says a person does not have to retreat before responding to a threat with force.
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At a FoundHER festival session titled "Real-Talk Resilience: In Conversation With Gina Miller, " the transparency campaigner warned against shutting down your emotions in order to stand your ground.
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A statistical analysis of Stand Your Ground cases in Florida, conducted by the political scientist Justin Murphy, looked at two hundred and thirty-seven incidents between 2005 and 2013.
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And with defendants no longer required to offer evidence — which usually means taking the stand — there will be little, if any downside, for them to claim Stand Your Ground.
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" Although she denied Mr. Raja's motion to dismiss the case on the basis of Stand Your Ground, the judge said he "remains free to use the defense at trial.
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And there's moderate evidence that "stand your ground" laws — NRA-backed measures that expand when someone can use a gun or other weapons to defend himself — increase violent crime.
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Florida's controversial Stand Your Ground law is an extension of American "castle doctrine" laws, which generally allow people who feel threatened in their own homes to use deadly force.
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Though Kentucky has "stand your ground" laws in place, Smith was indicted on manslaughter charges and eventually found guilty of reckless homicide and sentenced to two years in prison.
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By contrast, laws favored by the National Rifle Association (such as concealed carry or stand your ground), when implemented, either had no effect on gun deaths or increased gun violence.
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And even some supporters of "stand your ground" laws, including the National Rifle Association, Republican lawmakers, and conservative pundits, have contested the sheriff's application of the law in this case.
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Even more egregious: Her defense team had the nerve to claim that Texas' so-called "castle doctrine," which is similar to the "stand your ground" laws elsewhere, applied to Guyger.
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But not so, say experts -- including lawmakers who wrote "Stand Your Ground," criminal lawyers and a National Rifle Association lobbyist -- who were interviewed by POLITICO about Gualtieri&aposs controversial remarks.
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But even some supporters of "stand your ground" laws, including the National Rifle Association, Republican lawmakers, and conservative pundits, contested the sheriff's initial application of the law in this case.
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But Missouri's measure would make it the first new stand your ground state since 2011, according to both the N.R.A. and Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun control advocacy group.
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The first "stand your ground" law was pushed through by Marion Hammer, a former N.R.A. president who also fought against the adoption of the amicable scrub jay as state bird.
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Although critics say Drejka's use of deadly force was uncalled for, the Pinellas County sheriff declined to arrest him, citing the state's "stand your ground" law, which gave him immunity.
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While most states provide some form of legal protection in cases of self-defense, 25 have enacted "stand your ground" laws, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL).
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The students also had an astonishing victory when Florida, which has been a laboratory for N.R.A.-backed laws like Stand Your Ground, passed its first gun safety law in years.
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The legal aftermath of the death of Mr. Jones, who did not have a criminal record and was a church band member, heightened scrutiny of the Stand Your Ground law.
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But the two organizations bailed on the news conference, citing a Politico report published Monday that quoted the N.R.A. and G.O.P. lawmakers disputing the sheriff's interpretation of Stand Your Ground.
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HAPPENING LATER Trial begins The "Stand Your Ground" manslaughter trial, in a case involving a shooting that happened after a dispute over a handicap parking spot, starts today in Florida.
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"(Unclear) the 'stand your ground' thing, and I did exactly what I thought I was supposed to be doing at that time considering what was happening to myself," he said.
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Go deeper: Parking lot shooting reignites Florida's stand your ground debate Editor's note: This story has been corrected to note that it was McGlockton who pushed Drejka to the ground.
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It became one in a series of gun-rights laws that Florida — a state known for its "Stand Your Ground" self-defense law — has passed over the last few years.
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She plans to take up the fight for domestic abuse victims and push for a change in what advocates have called the uneven application of Florida's Stand Your Ground law.
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In 2012, a brave and eloquent group of young black Floridians calling themselves the Dream Defenders staged extensive and persistent protests of the state's so-called "Stand Your Ground" law.
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A sheriff there said "stand your ground" laws prevented him from arresting Michael Drejka, who is white, after he fatally shot Markeis McGlockton, who was black, over a parking spot.
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Stand Your Ground immunity was quickly invoked by killers in barroom brawls and gang wars, according to a detailed 2012 study of nearly 200 cases by The Tampa Bay Times.
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MIAMI — Florida, which spearheaded the country's use of the Stand Your Ground defense, is poised to significantly alter its self-defense laws, making it easier for defendants to use them.
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You meet people where they are and you listen to them and you don't always agree with them, you stand your ground but you have got to hear them out.
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Defense attorneys asked the judge to dismiss the murder charge under the "stand your ground" law that allows residents to use deadly force when they fear death or great bodily harm.
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Quite a few Republicans, including those who initially backed more mainstream rivals in their party's presidential primaries, sound strikingly like stand-your-ground advocates when defending a vote for Mr Trump.
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"Let me be clear, it is the policy of my office to comply with and abide by the 'stand your ground' law," state attorney Brian Haas said at a press conference.
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When Senate Bill 656 arrived in the House in 2016, Burlison decided it was time to press for a much bolder law, adding both constitutional carry and "stand your ground" provisions.
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Dennis Baxley, a Republican who sponsored "Stand Your Ground" in 2005 told Politico he also disputed Gualtieri's assertion that, in passing the law, lawmakers created a standard that was largely subjective.
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Florida legislators are weighing whether to shift the burden of proof in stand-your-ground cases from the defendant to the prosecutor, which would make such matters more difficult to prosecute.
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Dunn sought to use the controversial Stand Your Ground law as his defense, saying that Davis threatened him and that he thought he saw a gun sticking out the teenagers' SUV.
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Mr. Zimmerman was acquitted of all charges and, while Florida's stand your ground law was not directly mentioned in his trial, it was included in the judge's instructions to the jury.
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Sheriff Gualtieri said, among other things, that his office could be held liable in civil court for arresting a perpetrator who went on to successfully assert a Stand Your Ground defense.
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So would repealing lax concealed-carry laws, stand-your-ground laws and other rules that are proliferating around America to make it easier to shoot someone and get away with it.
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The McGlockton's family attorney Michele Rayner-Goolsby told reporters that the "stand your ground" statute constitutes legalized murder and that people are done seeing black people killed by "vigilantes" with guns.
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In Alabama, Roman found, no women received justifiable-homicide rulings between 2006, when the state's Stand Your Ground law was implemented, and 2010, after which the state stopped reporting its data.
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"You can see some areas where there is very big differences in belief," said Morral, pointing to stand-your-ground laws, which have been passed in more than half the states.
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Last week, Curtis J. Reeves Jr., the so-called popcorn shooter who shot and killed a man in a Tampa movie theater, lost his immunity hearing after invoking Stand Your Ground.
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An investigation is underway, and this could be a "stand-your-ground type of case," Rockdale County Sheriff Eric Levett said Monday, referring to one component of Georgia's self-defense laws.
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Despite some of the controversy surrounding "stand your ground" laws, they rapidly spread throughout the states over the past decade, from only Florida in 2005 to 23 states by this year.
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At the time, critics of "stand your ground" laws responded by saying that the laws imperil the lives of people of color, like Martin, by giving anyone a defense to claim.
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According to public records obtained by the Trace, Steube's column was drafted with help of Marion Hammer, the Florida-based NRA lobbyist who is the architect of Florida's "stand your ground" law.
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Zimmerman, who claimed self-defense in the killing of the 453-year old Martin, ignited a firestorm over the implementation of Stand Your Ground laws in Florida and elsewhere across the country.
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Further, while homicides that invoked Stand Your Ground were found justified in 78% of the cases with black or Latino victims, only 56% of cases involving white victims were ruled similarly justified.
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And a white man in South Carolina, James Loftis, 39, is free under Stand Your Ground after shooting and burning to death Guma Oz Dubar, 45, a Black taxi driver and father.
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But the best of the numbers is "Anything Goes in Florida," a ballad skewering the goofy, genuinely terrible aspects of the Sunshine State, ranging from Spring Break to stand-your-ground laws.
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The Missouri law not only authorized constitutional carry, it made Missouri a "stand your ground" state, extending the right to lethal self-defense outside the home, even when retreating is an option.
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It can be tricky, as states like Florida have "stand your ground" statutes, which authorize the use of guns against unarmed persons in circumstances that would lead to homicide charges in others.
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State legislators in Wyoming on Tuesday debated a "stand your ground" law that would grant immunity to someone charged with assault or murder if they claim to have acted in self defense.
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Florida's controversial "Stand Your Ground" law has spared a white man from criminal charges after he shot and killed a black father in front of his young children over a parking spot.
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The Pinellas County sheriff, however, declined to press charges against Drejka because of Florida's Stand Your Ground law, which allows anyone who fears for their safety or life to use lethal force.
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" The state has some of the most lax gun regulations in the country, as well as a series of strong legal protections for gun owners, including the controversial "stand your ground law.
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The report also said there is moderate evidence that stand-your-ground laws, which allow people to use guns to defend themselves without first trying to retreat, may increase the murder rate.
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The other would have prohibited a teacher who shoots a student by mistake in a situation with an active shooter on campus from claiming self-defense under Florida's Stand Your Ground law.
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The Pinellas County sheriff, Bob Gualtieri, said last month that he had decided not to arrest Mr. Drejka, who had a permit to carry a concealed weapon, because of Stand Your Ground.
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The state attorney for Pinellas County, Bernie McCabe, will have to present "clear and convincing" evidence that Mr. Drejka was not entitled to use the Stand Your Ground law, Sheriff Gualtieri said.
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Op-Ed Contributor The Florida Senate recently passed a bill intended to make its already robust Stand Your Ground law even more friendly to people who say they killed in self-defense.
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In an interview with St. Petersburg's WTSP earlier this month, Drejka said he feared for his life during the altercation and believes his actions were protected by the "stand your ground" law.
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Instead, studies support the big argument against "stand your ground" laws: that they legally empower people to use force even when it's not necessary, and that could lead to more unnecessary violence.
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If she is indicted on murder charges, "stand your ground" legislation — and whether laws intended to protect people who use guns in self-defense really do apply to everyone — will be tested.
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By contrast, 27 states — most notably Florida — have passed so-called "stand-your-ground" laws, which entitle citizens to use force in self-defense if there is a reasonable belief of a threat.
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The new law would also expand the so-called "stand your ground" law to allow persons to use deadly force not only in their homes but in other places if they feel threatened.
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Instead, studies support the big argument against "stand your ground" laws: that they legally empower people to use force even when it's not necessary, and that appears to lead to more unnecessary violence.
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Florida lawmakers flipped the burden of proof in such cases last year, requiring the state to prove that a "stand your ground" defense does not apply before someone invoking it can be tried.
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A Florida man was arrested on a prosecutor's warrant Monday in connection with a fatal shooting last month that a sheriff said was justified under the state's "Stand Your Ground" self-defense law.
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Florida prosecutors have charged a white man in the death of an unarmed black man whose videotaped shooting in a store parking lot has revived debate over Florida&aposs "stand your ground" law.
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Invoking the "stand your ground" law, the Pinellas County sheriff did not arrest Drejka -- claiming his hands were tied -- a decision that even some NRA lobbyists and Republican sponsors of the legislation refute.
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Further, those who claim stand your ground helps fight crime should take into account that in the decade after Florida enacted the law, murders increased 22%, with a 75% hike in justifiable homicides.
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Zimmerman was found not guilty of murder under Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law, which allows individuals to use deadly force without obligation to retreat first if they are in fear for their lives.
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"(Unclear) the 'stand your ground' thing, and I did exactly what I thought I was supposed to be doing at that time considering what was happening to myself," he says on the tape.
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The data examined by The Marshall Project are more comprehensive and cover a longer time period than other research into the question, much of which has focused on controversial Stand Your Ground laws.
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"To arrest, it must be so clear that, as a matter of law, 'stand your ground' does not apply in any way to the facts and circumstances that you're presented with," Gualtieri said.
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Mick initially filed for a Stand Your Ground hearing, but in October, 2018, he instead pursued a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, a rare defense that is difficult to win.
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He would create incentives for states to repeal "stand your ground" laws, which allow people to use deadly force for self-defense, even when retreating from the situation would also keep them safe.
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A 2016 review of the research, published in Epidemiologic Reviews, found that most big studies looking at "stand your ground" and "castle doctrine" laws found that they actually correlated with increases in homicides.
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Bowman is trying to use a new version of Florida's controversial Stand Your Ground law, which gives people immunity from prosecution for murder and other violent charges if they acted in self-defense.
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Florida's controversial "stand your ground" law, which allows people to use deadly force if they're acting in self-defense, has led to a significant rise in killings, according to a new medical study.
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Deibel's mandalas play on the "line in the sand" concept of stand-your-ground, and were created with the knowledge that they would get irrevocably smeared and compromised over the course of the exhibition.
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Michael McGlockton is convinced that two things killed his son in a Florida parking lot last month: The man who pulled the trigger and the state&aposs polarizing "stand your ground" self-defense law.
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Louisiana is one of a number of U.S. states with so-called "stand your ground" laws, under which a jury could find Smith's shooting death justified if Hayes was acting to save his life.
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Don't let these two almost identical images of Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas trip you up, stand your ground and see if you can figure out the differences between these two super similar snaps!
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An Uber driver who fatally shot a man, citing Florida's "stand your ground" law that allows a person who feels threatened to use deadly force, won't face charges for the shooting, ABC News reports.
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To raise its grade, Florida could enact universal background checks, regulate firearm dealers and repeal its "Stand Your Ground," self-defense law that critics say allow people too much leeway to pull the trigger.
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Drejka's attorneys said he will not pursue a "stand your ground" pretrial hearing to gain immunity, but will instead make the case to jurors that he acted in self-defense, CNN affiliate WFTS reported.
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ALEC has endured setbacks, notably when a number of large corporations dropped their memberships after George Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin's killer, was acquitted thanks to a "stand your ground" law that was formulated by ALEC.
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The Senate on Wednesday passed a revised Stand Your Ground bill by a vote of 23 to 15, paving the way for the House to take up the bill in the coming weeks. Gov.
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Don't let these two almost identical images of Lili Reinhart walk all over you ... Stand your ground and see if you can uncover the sneaky switches that have been made to this tricky pic!
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More research finds "stand your ground" laws lead to more homicides Lost is still groundbreaking TV Early polls show voter support for impeachment is growing Air travel is a huge contributor to climate change.
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A Florida sheriff's deputy has again successfully used the state's Stand Your Ground law to defend himself against a manslaughter charge without going to trial — in this case, securing a win in appeals court.
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In the texts, Snow wrote that he wished he could move to Florida so he could have shot Nieto and gotten away with it, presumably a reference to the state's controversial "Stand Your Ground" law.
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Don't let these two almost identical images of Gwen Stefani give you the boot, stand your ground and scan these snaps to see if you can find the differences between these two super similar shots!
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In 2017, he signed a law changing Florida's Stand Your Ground Law to require prosecutors to convince a judge that a shooter did not feel threatened in order to move forward with a firearm case.
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Rapper Kevin Gates was acting in self-defense -- under Florida's "Stand Your Ground Law" -- when he kicked a woman in the front row of his concert ... according to new legal docs filed by the singer.
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The authors found that in states without a stand-your-ground law over the same time period those rates remained flat, suggesting that a nationwide crime wave was not to blame for the abrupt increase.
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In a significant move, the judge allowed Guyger's attorneys to argue the so-called castle doctrine -- or stand your ground laws -- as part of their defense, since Guyger believed she was in her own apartment.
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A Florida man who fatally shot another man in a parking lot after an argument has been charged with manslaughter after police previously declined to press charges because of the state's "stand your ground" law.
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"The law says it applies to 'any person,'" said Eric Schwartzreich, a lawyer representing a Broward County sheriff's deputy who made a successful Stand Your Ground claim in the 2013 killing of a computer engineer.
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Clearwater, Florida (CNN)The man who fatally shot Markeis McGlockton in a controversial "stand your ground case" was found guilty by a jury Friday night, and McGlockton's family says they can now begin to heal.
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His platform for governor has been loftier: raise the corporate tax rate, significantly boost public school funding, legalize marijuana, repeal the "Stand Your Ground" self-defense law that has long been contentious in the state.
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Read the lawsuit: Go deeper: What we're watching: Trayvon Martin's "Rest in Power" trailer Parking lot shooting reignites Florida's stand your ground law debate Editor's note: This article has been updated to include the lawsuit.
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"Instead, you may stand your ground and meet force with force, including deadly force, if you reasonably believe it is necessary to prevent death or great bodily harm to yourself or others," the institute says.
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But in his telling, Gillum, who says he would repeal the "Stand Your Ground" law if he becomes governor, likes to make the listener do some work, reversing the racial roles in the McGlockton killing.
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The research increasingly suggests that "stand your ground" laws — which expand the reach of self-defense laws to remove a "duty to retreat" in public spaces — cause more homicides and do not reduce violent crime.
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This is a shameful, shameful reality, and it's clear that we need to challenge a criminal justice system that would try a pregnant black woman for upholding 'stand your ground' laws and her Second Amendment rights.
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Like most states, Florida also has "Stand Your Ground" laws that allow people to use deadly force to defend themselves against a perceived threat, as well as laws permitting people to carry concealed guns in public.
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Steward's work shares floor space with three large sand mandalas created by Matthew Deibel, in his interpretation of Stand-Your-Ground laws that enable gun violence on the basis of a perceived threat to one's space.
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Dennis Baxley, a Republican legislator from Ocala and an initial "stand your ground" sponsor, says the law&aposs intent was to make it clear that when people are attacked, they have a right to defend themselves.
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The law does mean, however, that prosecutors may have to disprove a "stand your ground" defense, following revisions to the Florida statute last year that put the burden of proof on prosecutors instead of the defense.
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The controversial Stand Your Ground self-defense law – which was passed in 2005 – allows Florida residents to use deadly force rather than retreat if they believe they are in imminent danger of bodily harm or death.
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The immunity is a key feature: "Stand your ground" lets judges declare someone immune from prosecution if they find certain facts in favor of the killer in pretrial hearings, avoiding trial altogether in a disputed shooting.
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Sheriff Gualtieri said at the news conference on July 20 that his office had declined to file charges because of Florida's Stand Your Ground law, which removes the obligation to retreat if a person feels threatened.
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The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office at first declined to arrest Drejka, citing the controversial "stand your ground'' law that permits people to use deadly force if they are concerned about "imminent death or great bodily harm.
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In Florida, the legislature is nearing final approval of a bill making the state's notorious Stand Your Ground law even more dangerous by giving people accused of killings greater leeway to claim self-defense and immunity.
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The fatal confrontation, captured on Westlake's dash camera, was what the Polk County sheriff called a "classic 'stand your ground' case," referring to the controversial Florida law that grants immunity to people acting in self-defense.
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The conflict will likely make its way to the state Supreme Court, especially considering the state's highest court had already ruled that defendants should have the burden of proof in Stand Your Ground cases in 2015.
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The Pinellas County sheriff, however, had previously declined to press charges against Drejka due to Florida's Stand Your Ground law, which allows anyone who fears for their safety or life to use lethal force against the threat.
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The "stand your ground" law says that a person has no duty to retreat and has the right to use deadly force if he "reasonably believes" that doing so will prevent imminent death or great bodily harm.
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Dunn was charged by a grand jury following a two-week investigation into whether his shooting of Lopez was protected under Florida's controversial "stand your ground" statute, which protects those who use deadly force to protect themselves.
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"This self-appointed wannabe cop attempted to hide behind 'Stand Your Ground' to defend his indefensible actions, but the truth has finally cut through the noise," Crump said in a statement following news that Drejka was charged.
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In 2005, Florida was the first state to enact a "stand your ground" law, which allows people to fatally shoot others in public without attempting to escape if they feel threatened, all without fear of criminal prosecution.
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Yet Michael David Dunn, who also tried to invoke stand your ground, was sentenced to life without parole for the 2012 murder of Jordan Davis, 17, outside a Jacksonville gas station in a dispute over loud music.
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Broward County Sheriff's Deputy Peter Peraza, who is Hispanic, sought protection under the state's "stand your ground" law, said his attorney Eric Schwartzreich, who believes it is the first such case involving an on-duty officer shooting.
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A man in Florida was found guilty of manslaughter Friday for killing an unarmed man during a dispute over a parking spot, in a case that sought to make use of that state's "stand your ground" law.
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The Pinellas County sheriff had cited the state's Stand Your Ground law, which says that people who believe they are in grave danger do not have a duty to retreat from confrontation and can use deadly force.
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By contrast, experts who favor restrictive laws -- those aligned with the Brady Campaign to Stop Gun Violence -- believe stand-your-ground laws would result in a 2% increase in gun homicides or about 300 more per year.
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That "will do nothing more than increase the carnage that has been inflicted on our communities," warned one legislator, Bobby DuBose, citing research that the original Stand Your Ground law had increased homicides and diminished victims' rights.
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Editorial Republican legislators in Florida are planning to compound the deadly mischief of the state's Stand Your Ground law by allowing accused killers even greater leeway to claim self-defense and immunity from prosecution in violent confrontations.
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The shootings share a few similarities: The victim was black, the death could have been avoided if cooler heads (particularly on the shooter's side) prevailed, and both drew a lot of attention to "stand your ground" laws.
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"We knew there were a number of high-profile Stand Your Ground cases which resulted in the death of a teen, including Trayvon Martin, Jordan Davis, and others, but this study is the first to show that Florida's Stand Your Ground law is linked to an increase in teen homicides," said lead study author Michelle Degli Esposti of the University of Oxford in the UK. "The results are important because they suggest that since the law was introduced in 93, Florida has become less safe," Degli Eposti said by email.
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After more than a year of meeting Republican voters and Trump supporters at rallies and campaign events and twice interviewing the candidate himself, Lexington is unexpectedly struck on election eve by echoes from America's stand-your-ground movement.
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A Florida man who had avoided arrest for about a month due to the state's "stand your ground" law was arrested Monday and charged with manslaughter for fatally shooting a father during a dispute over a parking spot.
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Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri announced that Drejka would not be arrested, citing the state's controversial "stand your ground" law — a self-defense statute that says someone does not need to retreat before using force to protect themselves.
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"Law enforcement officers are eligible to assert Stand Your Ground immunity, even when the use of force occurred in the course of making a lawful arrest,"cthe state's high court wrote in its 7-0 decision on Thursday.
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Scott faced public pressure to reëvaluate Stand Your Ground, and two months later he unveiled the Task Force on Citizen Safety and Protection, which would hold public hearings across the state and publish an analysis of its findings.
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No charges have been filed against Dunn, as Florida law requires prosecutors to prove a shooting was not justified under the state's controversial "Stand Your Ground" law that allows business owners and homeowners to fatally shoot suspected criminals.
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"To arrest, it must be so clear that, as a matter of law, 'stand your ground' does not apply in any way to the facts and circumstances that you're presented with," Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said Tuesday.
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The politics of gun policy have intensified in Florida after the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland that left 17 people dead, and Democrats have focused much of their criticism on the Stand Your Ground statute.
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And although he started the argument and escalated the encounter with a gun, he was not initially arrested in the killing because the Pinellas County Sheriff said the state's "stand your ground" law appeared to give him immunity.
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Florida also has the "stand your ground" law, which the NRA's Institute for Legislative Action describes as a person having no "duty to retreat" if they're attacked in a place where they have a legal right to be.
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Unlike Stand Your Ground laws, which offer justification for a defendant's action, battered-woman syndrome proposes that a woman has "acted wrongly, but is so defective in some significant sense that she cannot be held accountable," Franks writes.
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The laws, which function much like "stand your ground" laws that remove a shooter's "duty to retreat" from conflict, have long been controversial but are overwhelmingly used in cases involving the defendant's own home rather than someone else's.
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Research by legal institutions, including the American Bar Association, found that the Stand Your Ground law, far from advancing public safety, has been followed by an increase in homicides, diminished victims' rights and heightened racial injustice in enforcement.
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The Castle Doctrine is similar to the Stand Your Ground Law, which allows a person to use deadly force in order to protect their own home, car, or other property from anyone who attempts to forcibly enter it.
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The recent changes to the Stand Your Ground law are the latest in a series of additional protections implemented since George Zimmerman was acquitted of the murder of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teengare in Miami in 2013.
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Because this was before Florida and a radicalizing NRA gave the country "stand your ground" laws, the pamphlet also highlighted my legal duty to seek a retreat from a threatening situation before pulling out my handgun and opening fire.
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He supported Hammer's Stand Your Ground expansion but missed the vote on Kerner's amendments because he had to attend a different committee meeting, where a health-care-related bill that he was sponsoring was coming up for a vote.
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The case triggered also debate about Florida's Stand Your Ground Law -- which is back in the headlines, thanks to another shooting, this time of an unarmed man in a parking-lot dispute -- and gave rise to the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter.
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The state senator who sponsored the law, Dennis K. Baxley, said he was surprised to see officers invoke it, and even a lawyer for one of the officers who claimed Stand Your Ground said the law should be changed.
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The sheriff of Pinellas County cited Florida's so-called Stand Your Ground law in declining to charge Michael Drejka, who the authorities say shot Markeis McGlockton last week in the parking lot outside a convenience store in Clearwater, Fla.
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"Here is a black woman who had a history of abuse against her and tried to use Stand Your Ground and ended up with a 20-year sentence," Bruce Zimet, one Ms. Alexander's lawyers, said in a telephone interview.
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In his analysis for The New Yorker , John Roman, the researcher from the University of Chicago, found that, over all, according to F.B.I. data, Stand Your Ground laws have actually helped both women and men win justifiable-homicide defenses.
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"This may have adversely affected African-Americans to the extent that persons who use lethal force in Stand Your Ground-type situations may have conscious or unconscious stereotypes against African-Americans, especially African-American adolescents," Piquero said by email.
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Media coverage of Dixon's case noted that she had not been protected by Alabama's "Stand Your Ground" self-defense law, and local police said that Dixon did not seek consistent enforcement of a protection order against her estranged husband.
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He and other protesters, civil rights activists, and the major Democratic candidates in Florida's governor's primary also called for a repeal of the "stand your ground" self-defense law used to justify the killing of McGlockton and Trayvon Martin in 2012.
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That brings back visages of one of the last times Florida's "stand your ground" law came up in a major public debate — when George Zimmerman, who's white and Hispanic, in 2012 followed and then shot and killed black teenager Trayvon Martin.
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The "stand your ground" law, which removes legal responsibility to retreat from a dangerous situation, was cited as a factor in the fatal 2012 shooting of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin by a volunteer neighborhood watch captain who was eventually acquitted.
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FLORIDA SHERIFF SAYS 'STAND YOUR GROUND' LAW PREVENTS ARREST IN FATAL SHOOTING "I support the State Attorney's decision and will have no further comment as the case continues to work its way through the criminal justice system," the sheriff said.
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Republicans who helped craft and pass Florida&aposs "Stand Your Ground" law have reportedly joined a chorus of critics challenging the Pinellas County sheriff who cited the law as a reason he couldn&apost charge a man in a deadly shooting.
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That has echoes of one of the last times Florida's "stand your ground" law came up in a major public debate — when George Zimmerman, who's white and Hispanic, in 2012 followed and then shot and killed black teenager Trayvon Martin.
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He didn't set out to be an activist or an expert on the Stand Your Ground policy that allowed Zimmerman to escape any legal responsibility for Trayvon's death; Martin wanted only to provide a decent life for himself and his children.
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"Put simply, an officer is a 'person,' whether on duty or off, and irrespective of whether the officer is making an arrest," Florida Supreme Court Justice Alan Lawson wrote, referring to who the "stand your ground" statute covers as written.
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The legislation marks the most significant expansion of gun-carrying rights in the US since September, when the Missouri legislature enacted a "stand your ground" law and a measure allowing people to carry concealed guns in public without a permit.
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We've also got more people carrying concealed weapons permits than any other state, and the gun laws that the NRA writes for our legislature tend to get copied by a lot of other states—"Stand Your Ground" being just one example.
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Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law made national headlines in 85033 with the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager, at the hands of 28-year-old George Zimmerman who was found not guilty for the shooting under the law.
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In the more than 10 years since the passage of Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law, giving widespread legal immunity to people who use lethal force in self-defense, the number of "justifiable homicide" cases in the state has nearly tripled.
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During the trial, attorneys for Drejka argued that his actions were permitted under the state's "stand your ground" law, which allows for the use of lethal force in situations where a person can be reasonably found to fear for their life.
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"Stand your ground" laws specifically refer to moments when a person cannot retreat from an attack; standard self-defense laws state that a person has a duty to retreat and call for police support if it is safe to do so.
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The court held that law enforcement officers "are eligible to assert Stand Your Ground immunity, even when the use of force occurred in the course of making a lawful arrest," and are immune from criminal prosecution when the facts warrant it.
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When the unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin was killed in 22009, Florida's self-defense law known as Stand Your Ground became the subject of much public discussion, though it was ultimately not used in court to defend the shooter, George Zimmerman.
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Though prosecutors objected to the defense applying castle doctrine or stand your ground laws in the case because Guyger was in Jean's home, not the other way around, the judge allowed it, and the defense leaned on it in closing arguments.
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The defects of the Stand Your Ground law, which was enacted in 2005, were highlighted in the case of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager, who was shot to death in 2012 by George Zimmerman, a self-appointed neighborhood watchman.
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Many people still wrongly believe that the big reason George Zimmerman, who killed Martin, was acquitted of murder and manslaughter charges was Florida's "stand your ground" law, even though Zimmerman was let go on a much more typical self-defense argument.
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"Stand your ground" is by and large an expansion of "castle doctrine": While the latter only removes the duty to retreat in your home, the former removes the duty to retreat everywhere — whether you're in a grocery store, park, or street.
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"Stand your ground" laws became a flashpoint in the national debate about race and criminal justice in 2012 when George Zimmerman was set free after shooting teenager Trayvon Martin, who was black, because Zimmerman purportedly believed his life was at risk.
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Late Shift fails as a game, absolutely, restricted as it is exclusively to plot-point decisions—do you stand your ground in the presence of a thug with a gun, or make a run for it, that kind of thing.
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The white man who shot and killed a black man over a parking space in Florida will be charged with manslaughter after all, despite the sheriff's office previously declining to pursue any charges due to the state's controversial "Stand Your Ground" law.
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"Stand your ground" is an expansion of "castle doctrine": While the latter only removes the duty to retreat in your home, the former removes the duty to retreat everywhere — whether you're in a grocery store, in a park, or on a street.
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American Satan is mostly preoccupied with Johnny's descent into the classic pitfalls of rock n roll stardom, including sex, drugs, and accidentally killing a crazed racist in a "Stand Your Ground" state, thereby becoming an unwilling hero to gun-toting conservatives across America.
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The shooting, which was caught on video, reignited debate around the "Stand Your Ground" law, and led to demonstrations by protesters who criticized Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gulatieri for not arresting Drejka, a white man who shot and killed an unarmed black man.
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Related: Stand Your Ground Laws Are Alive and Well in America President Barack Obama said after the acquittal of Zimmerman that Martin "could have been me, 35 years ago" and urged Americans to understand the pain African Americans felt over the case.
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But "stand-your-ground" laws, which allow people to use deadly force in self-defense even if fleeing is an option, tend to raise the number of gun deaths, the study by Boston University researchers published in the Lancet medical journal found.
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Should they start talking about taking the company in a direction you don't believe in, or suggesting changes that aren't aligned with the core mission, or that go against the core analytical understanding of the biz, it's time to stand your ground.
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A Florida judge on Wednesday dismissed a manslaughter charge against a deputy sheriff who invoked the state's so-called Stand Your Ground law as a defense in the fatal shooting of a man who turned out to be carrying an air rifle.
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A critic of the "stand your ground" law, University of Miami law professor Mary Anne Franks, said the high court's ruling itself was not surprising, because the law affords immunity to any "person" acting in self-defense, and police officers indisputably are people.
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NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - The shooting death of retired NFL player Will Smith was an "execution," Louisiana prosecutors said in court on Tuesday, opening a high-profile murder trial in which the accused is seeking immunity under a "stand your ground" state law.
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She's long called on Congress to impose stricter gun control laws that would include more stringent background checks and has testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee to oppose "Stand Your Ground" laws that protect people who use deadly force in self-defense.
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A man who shot and killed another man in Florida this week during an argument over a parking space will not be arrested or charged by the sheriff's office because of the state's so-called Stand Your Ground law, the authorities said.
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"In a district like mine, arming teachers or school personnel and cloaking them in Stand Your Ground immunities (sic) in lots of schools where the children look like me is not something I'm prepared to do today or any day," Shaw said.
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That shield was denied her in 2011, when a judge in a pretrial hearing rejected her attempt to use the law, saying she did not meet the burden of proof because there was a "factual dispute" on her Stand Your Ground defense.
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Although the Stand Your Ground law was not a factor in Mr. Zimmerman's defense — his lawyers argued he shot in self-defense — it was part of the jury's instructions and played a role in the way the police approached the initial investigation.
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Experts who favor what Morral calls "permissive" gun laws -- those aligned with the National Rifle Association -- believe stand-your-ground laws, if turned on in all 50 states, would result in a 4% reduction in firearm homicides -- about 500 fewer homicides per year.
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In a fiery response after the initial arrest, Sheriff Newell Normand of Jefferson Parish defended the pace of the investigation, saying the authorities needed time to build a better case in a state that has strong Stand Your Ground self-defense laws.
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"Stand your ground" is an expansion of "castle doctrine": While the latter only removes the duty to retreat in your property, the former removes the duty to retreat everywhere — whether you're in a grocery store, in a park, or on a street.
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In 2014, for example, the legislature expanded immunity from people accused of murder or assault to people who fire "warning shots" and made it more difficult to track Stand Your Ground cases by expunging the records of people granted immunity under the law.
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And many people are worried that Louisiana's similar "stand your ground" law will let Ronald Gasser, who killed McKnight, go free as well, even though it's not yet clear if the law will play a role at all in Gasser's trial for manslaughter.
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Now, "stand your ground" laws are starting a debate around a new racial dimension: Courts have ruled again and again that men are entitled to stand their ground, but when it's a woman, particularly a black woman, it's a very different story.
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Baxley is a descendant of a Confederate soldier, previously fought a proposed moratorium on the sale of AR-15s, and sponsored the state's controversial 2005 "Stand Your Ground" legislation, which allows civilians to use deadly force if they perceive their lives to be at risk.
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A 2016 review of the research, published in Epidemiologic Reviews, found that most big studies looking at "stand your ground" and similar "castle doctrine" laws — which only remove the duty to retreat in your home — found that they actually correlated with increases in homicides.
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Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum has called for the suspension of the state's controversial "Stand Your Ground" law, a measure that critics argue is too often used to justify the murders of black men while also failing to protect black women from criminal charges.
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Asked if Copley might invoke castle doctrine or stand your ground laws -- self-defense laws that several states have in place -- Bamberg flatly said it's "not even something that should be brought up" because Copley was safe from any perceived threat inside his home.
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The killing of an unarmed black man by a white man in Florida last week during an argument over a parking spot has reignited debates of the state's controversial "stand your ground" law, which authorities said prohibited them from detaining or arresting the shooter.
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Missouri gun proponents built on the repeal to legalize "permitless carry" by anyone 19 years of age or older, nullify local gun-control ordinances, expand "stand your ground" protections and empower citizens to carry weapons into restaurants, bars, streets, schools and seemingly everyplace else.
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Brian Haas, the state attorney for the 10th Judicial Circuit, said in a statement that Mr. Dunn's actions fell outside the protection of Florida's Stand Your Ground law, which can make it challenging to prosecute people who maintain they killed someone in self-defense.
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"It doesn't take much to look at the local news every night and see how many black kids, black boys, black men are being killed with these 'stand your ground' defenses that these people raise, and they get off," Flowers told her fellow lawmakers Wednesday.
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Klas: Florida's gun laws have gotten more lenient for the last decade as the conservative majority, pushed by gun rights groups, have passed so-called "stand your ground" laws and measures to prevent counties and cities from passing stricter gun laws than the state.
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Half of all states have laws with Stand Your Ground elements, but the effort to pass them has slowed in recent years — Iowa is only the second state to enact such a law since the 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin, according to Moms Demand Action.
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This is another quirk in "stand your ground" and "castle doctrine" laws: By putting the burden on law enforcement to prove that someone's self-defense claim is not credible, these laws can make it more difficult to arrest and charge someone in the first place.
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But a 2016 review of the research, published in Epidemiologic Reviews, found that most studies looking at "stand your ground" and similar "castle doctrine" laws — which only remove the duty to retreat in your home — found that they actually correlated with increases in homicides.
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Now she's facing a murder charge — despite living in a state with a "stand your ground" law in place, and despite a history of domestic violence, including a 2016 order of protection filed against her husband because he punched her in the face repeatedly.
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Lucy McBath, a spokeswoman for Everytown for Gun Safety in America (and newly elected member of Congress from Georgia) who lost her 17-year-old son Jordan to a shooting in 2012, met Williams in 2013 at a Washington, D.C., event on stand-your-ground legislation.
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Ultimately, Drejka's attorneys did not pursue a pretrial hearing to gain immunity, but instead argued at trial the shooting still was justified on the state's "stand your ground" self-defense allowances -- with a defense attorney specifically telling the jury that Drejka had no duty to retreat.
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Sheriff Bob Gualtieri recently said his hands were tied in deciding whether to charge a man in a shooting outside a convenience store because the "Stand Your Ground" law "created a standard, that is a largely subjective standard" for the use of deadly force by a shooter.
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Rick Scott (R) has signed into law a strengthened version of the famous "stand your ground" law that was cited in the jury instructions in the 2012 trial for the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin that eventually acquitted neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman.
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Idaho and Wyoming enacted "Stand Your Ground" laws, which allow deadly force in response to threats; West Virginia approved a law that forces business owners to allow guns in the parking lots of their businesses; and Nebraska allows the withholding of public information related to firearm registration.
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MIAMI — Police officers in Florida can avail themselves of the state's "Stand Your Ground" self-defense law, the State Supreme Court ruled Thursday, offering broader immunity to law enforcement officers in a decision that could make it harder to hold police criminally responsible in disputed shootings.
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Earlier this year in Oklahoma, which unlike New York has a stand-your-ground law, an appeals court upheld the murder conviction of a man who shot and killed another in a parking lot following an episode of road rage involving a high-speed car chase.
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More than most other states, Florida has made it particularly difficult to prosecute when a defendant has a reasonable claim to self-defense, said Caroline Light, a Harvard professor and the author of a book on the history of Stand Your Ground-type self-defense laws.
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Self-defense argument McGlockton's death brought renewed scrutiny to Florida's "stand your ground" law, which says that a person has no duty to retreat and has the right to use deadly force if he "reasonably believes" that doing so will prevent imminent death or great bodily harm.
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McGlockton's death brought renewed scrutiny to Florida's controversial "stand your ground" law, which says that a person has no duty to retreat and has the right to use deadly force if he or she "reasonably believes" that doing so will prevent imminent death or great bodily harm.
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"I stand behind Andrew Gillum when he's on the job to stand behind our black men," Kayla said, applauding his opposition to Florida's Stand Your Ground law allowing shootings in self-defense, a flash point after George Zimmerman was acquitted of killing Trayvon Martin in 2012.
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Even if the existing "stand your ground" law gets further expanded, even if carry-in-school passes, there will still be more to do, because there's no end, in his mind, to the attempts — on the local, state, and federal levels — to weaken the Second Amendment.
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" The three experts roundly criticized what they called a lack of gun control and the passage of stand-your-ground laws in several states, saying that they demonstrated how "the state is also not acting with due diligence to protect the rights of African-American communities.
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Tensions surrounding the case have run high on social media in particular, drawing some comparisons to Trayvon Martin's death in 2012 — in large part because a controversial "stand your ground" law may benefit Gasser's defense, much as many still (incorrectly) believe it benefited Martin's killer, George Zimmerman.
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A graduate of Harvard and the University of Florida Law School, he's a liberal who ticks all the right boxes, beginning with "common sense" gun control: banning assault weapons, high capacity magazines, and bump stocks; instituting enhanced screening, including at gun shows; and repealing Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law.
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Florida prosecutors filed a manslaughter charge on Monday against a white man who shot and killed an unarmed black man in a dispute over a parking space, three weeks after the local sheriff had refused to arrest the man, citing the state's sweeping and controversial Stand Your Ground law.
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But the 2016 review of the research, which also looked at laws related to guns that go beyond "stand your ground" and "castle doctrine," found time and time again that when governments ease access to guns — and make it easier to use such deadly weapons — there are more gun deaths.
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Florida&aposs "stand your ground" law, which gained national prominence in 2012 after neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman fatally shot black teenager Trayvon Martin, says people have no obligation to retreat if threatened and can use deadly force if they believe it necessary to prevent death or great bodily harm.
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Under Florida's "stand your ground" law, not only does an individual have "no duty to retreat" when faced with "imminent death or great bodily harm," but a recent change to the law made it even easier for defendants to get off by shifting the burden of proof to the state.
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After the killing in Florida of an unarmed black teenager, Trayvon Martin, in 2012, for example, it helped persuade corporations like Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Pepsi to leave the American Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative organization that promoted the "Stand Your Ground" gun laws that became divisive after Mr. Martin's death.
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The critical change, which some law enforcement leaders in Arkansas oppose, would align with "stand your ground" laws in at least 25 states where there is no duty to retreat an attacker in any place someone has a legal right to be, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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"If all they have to do is file a motion and say 'I claim Stand Your Ground,' we are going to have to go through an entire trial because we don't know what specific facts they are using or claiming," said Glenn Hess, the president of the Florida Prosecuting Attorneys Association.
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" He called on the Tea Party to drum up support at the hearings to match the number of activists who were opposed to the law and, although Stand Your Ground has been shown to perpetuate racial bias in the criminal justice system, Gaetz rebuked any effort to point this out as "divisive politics.
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"Because the defendant's testimony was significantly at odds with the physical evidence and other witness testimony, this court has considerable doubts about his credibility, and is not willing to come to the conclusion that these circumstances are those envisioned by the Legislature when the 'stand your ground' law was enacted," Barthle ruled.
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But when one of your own guilty pleasures turns into somewhat of a hang-up — or when you're caught at the holiday dinner table defending your vigilant right to wear socks to bed — it's time to either face the music or stand your ground (no matter how slippery the floor may be).
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ALEC pushed the 2010 Arizona law — written by private prison companies — that allowed people to be stopped for driving while Latino, and it embraced Florida's so-called Stand Your Ground law, which was used to justify the murder of Trayvon Martin, making it a model policy to be pushed across the country.
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Gillum, along with the other candidates in the Florida governor's primary, was invited to address a rally at St. John Primitive Baptist in support of McGlockton's family and repealing stand your ground, the notorious Florida self-defense law that has played a central role in the cases of black men killed in shootings.
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That was achieved in 2008, but already a decision described by Justice John Paul Stevens as "a dramatic upheaval in the law" feels hesitant by today's standards of "campus carry," adrenalized "stand your ground" laws, and the NRA's current campaign to make concealed-weapon permits as acceptable across the states as drivers' licenses.
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"Nothing in either the 2005 ["Stand Your Ground"] law or the 2017 law [about immunity from prosecution] prohibits a Sheriff from making an arrest in a case where a person claims self-defense if there is probable cause that the use of force was unlawful," Tallahassee NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer told Politico.
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Researchers arrived at the projection by looking at the number of gun-related deaths in every state in 2010 and the types of laws that existed in those states in 2009, including restrictive laws, such as background checks and child access prevention laws, and permissive laws, such as stand-your-ground laws.
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The shooting on July 19, and the sheriff's decision at the time not to arrest Mr. Drejka, reignited controversy over the Stand Your Ground law, one of Florida's most far-reaching pro-gun statutes, which can make it difficult to prosecute people who kill and then claim that they acted in self-defense.
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His decision to let Mr. Drejka go free has reopened the debate in Florida over Stand Your Ground, a 2005 law that first rose to national attention after the 2012 fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old African-American teenager whose killer the police initially declined to arrest, citing the law.
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Similarly, progressive activists organized a protracted corporate messaging campaign early in the decade targeting the American Legislative Exchange Council, a nonprofit conservative coalition of legislators and private companies that works to craft state legislation, over the group's promotion of Stand Your Ground laws, voter ID laws, environmental deregulation, and discriminatory immigration policy.
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Florida's gun homicides have risen 32% since the law passed Florida's gun homicides have risen 32% since the law passed Florida's controversial "stand your ground" law, which allows people to use deadly force if they're acting in self-defense, has led to a significant rise in killings, according to a new medical study.
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Meanwhile, the NRA and others continued to push for Stand Your Ground and other extreme laws — not in the interest of public safety, but to allow people to take matters into their own hands, and using racially charged language invoking imagery of the black criminal, "thug" or "gangbanger" from which whites must be protected.
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During the trial for the case, Drejka did not testify on his own behalf, and his defense attorney tried unsuccessfully to use Florida's "stand your ground" law, arguing McGlockton was to blame for his own death by shoving Drejka, and adding that Drejka was only protecting himself by firing his gun, according to NBC News.
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From Bernhard Goetz, the 1980s "subway vigilante" who shot four African-American youths he said were harassing him, to its fierce advocacy for expanded "stand your ground" laws that give special legal protections to people who kill others who feel threatened in public places, the NRA has been unstinting in extolling civilian gun use.
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Never mind that the kind of stand-your-ground defense Guyger's team deployed has created a deeper racial divide, with white people who kill black men hardly ever being held to account, and black people who kill white people hardly ever being found not guilty, as the Marshall Project revealed during an examination of 400,000 homicides committed by civilians.
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As governor, he signed into law Stand Your Ground protections and enacted the "10-20-Life" law, which issues a minimum 10-year sentence for anyone who pulls a gun while committing a crime, 20 years for pulling the trigger during a crime and 25 years to life for injuring or killing someone by firing a gun.
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MIAMI — After a Florida sheriff decided not to arrest a white man who the authorities say killed an unarmed black man in a confrontation over a handicapped parking spot, outrage came from expected places: the victim's family, civil rights organizations and Democratic politicians eager to repeal Florida's controversial self-defense law, known as Stand Your Ground.
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" "If you're tired of feeling like you don't matter in the political process, know the most important thing you can do in supporting a candidate is finding someone who will take on critical issues such as: making minimum wage a livable wage, paying teachers what their worth, ensuring criminal justice reform, making healthcare a right, and repealing Stand Your Ground.
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If you're tired of feeling like you don't matter in the political process, know the most important thing you can do in supporting a candidate is finding someone who will take on critical issues such as: making minimum wage a livable wage, paying teachers what their worth, ensuring criminal justice reform, making healthcare a right, and repealing Stand Your Ground.
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"I think of all the people who will be saved because we did this right and put the burden of proof where it belongs," State Senator Dennis Baxley, one of the authors of the original 2005 Stand Your Ground bill, said during a passionate floor debate that touched on the importance of self-defense and the reality of race in America.
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READ: Florida saw a 32 percent increase in homicides because of Stand Your Ground "If the state of Florida is going to accuse a citizen of committing a crime, the state of Florida should have the burden of proof at each and every part of the proceedings," Florida state Republican Senate President Joe Negron, who backed the bill, said when the change was made in June.
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Frederica WilsonFrederica Patricia WilsonAssault weapons ban picks up steam in Congress Democratic rep reconsiders wearing trademark hats because of 'racists who taunt me' Overnight Defense: US shoots down Iranian drone | Pentagon sending 500 more troops to Saudi Arabia | Trump mulls Turkey sanctions | Trump seeks review of Pentagon cloud-computing contract MORE (D-Fla.), who represents Trayvon Martin's district, offered a bill calling for the repeal of "stand your ground" laws nationwide.
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Even more remarkable was that it happened in Florida, a state that has been the crucible for so-called "Stand Your Ground" laws and other policies that embody the NRA's vision of gun culture in the US. In the wake of the Parkland tragedy, the March for Our Lives movement that arose from it has given the gun debate a new significance, precisely because it shows that the voices of young people can result in direct political change.
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In a state roiled this year by the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, dueling toxic algae crises in Lake Okeechobee and the Gulf of Mexico, and the delayed arrest of a white man who shot dead an unarmed black man at a Clearwater gas station, the Democratic candidates have also pledged to push for gun control, adopt robust environmental regulations and try to repeal the controversial self-defense law known as Stand Your Ground.
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Even more remarkable was that it happened in Florida, a state that has been the crucible for so-called "Stand Your Ground" laws and other policies that embody the NRA's vision of gun culture in the US. In the wake of the Parkland tragedy, the March for Our Lives movement that arose from it has given the gun debate a new significance, precisely because it shows that the voices of young people can result in direct political change.
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