Well, that is "progress". With any self-defense claim (for the most part) an arrest is made, and then if there are significant questions of culpability or guilt, a grand jury is empaneled to see if the defendant will be indicted.
With the "stand your ground" law, the arrest (in theory) is only made if there is proof the claim is not valid. On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Vivec <gel21...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Zimmerman's lawyer says the Stand your Ground law does not apply! > > http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/24/justice/florida-teen-shooting/?hpt=us_c2 > > " A lawyer for the man at the center of the Trayvon Martin death > investigation said Florida's "stand your ground" law doesn't apply to the > shooting that killed the unarmed teen. > > "In my legal opinion, that's not really applicable to this case. The > statute on 'stand your ground' is primarily when you're in your house," > said Craig Sonner, attorney for George Zimmerman. > > "This is self-defense, and that's been around for forever -- that you have > a right to defend yourself. So the next issue (that) is going to come up > is, was he justified in using the amount of force he did?" > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:349032 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
