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Florida’s Stand Your Ground Law: Trayvon Martin & Marissa Alexander

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April 19, 2012

On This Edition of TheIntelhub.com News Brief Popeye covers the real facts surrounding the Florida Stand Your Ground Law.

He shows examples of how the law has allowed people in Florida to protect themselves as well as two stories from elsewhere in the country where gun owners were able to defend themselves.

He then goes over the story of Marissa Alexander, a legal gun owner who did defend herself under the Stand Your Ground Law and is in jail because of a Judge’s misinterpretation of it.




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Florida’s Stand Your Ground Law: Trayvon Martin & Marissa Alexander :

Trayvon Martin case: Task force wants changes in Stand Your Ground
Posted on May 1, 2012 by Cowboy Byte
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An independent task force wants major changes, but not an outright repeal, of Florida’s “stand your ground” law after the shooting death of teenager Trayvon Martin.

State Sen. Chris Smith, the organizer of the group, delivered the recommendations to Gov. Rick Scott and legislative leaders on Monday.

Smith said the group — which included prosecutors, defense attorneys, police chiefs and law professors — could not reach a consensus on whether to get rid of the seven-year-old law that allows a person to meet force with force if they reasonably believe they are in danger of being killed or seriously harmed. The law removed a duty to retreat that previously was in the state’s self-defense law.

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It sounds like they don't like someone defending themselves, It all comes down to which would you rather have " being tried by 12 jurors or carried by 12 friends". "Duty to retreat". Just what is that supposed to mean? I guess you should turn your back on your attacker!!!!!!