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In reply to the discussion: Don't buy the spin. SYG had everything to do with Zimmerman's acquittal [View all]LuckyTheDog
(6,837 posts)4. Comparision
From Florida's SYG law:
A person who is not engaged in an unlawful activity and who is attacked in any other place where he or she has a right to be has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground and meet force with force, including deadly force if he or she reasonably believes it is necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony.
From the jury instructions:
If George Zimmerman was not engaged in an unlawful activity and was attacked in any place where he had a right to be, he had no duty to retreat and had the right to stand his ground and meet force with force, including deadly force if he reasonably believed that it was necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or another or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony
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Don't buy the spin. SYG had everything to do with Zimmerman's acquittal [View all]
LuckyTheDog
Jul 2013
OP
Well a juror said it did make a difference! It's the same propaganda controlling the Snowdon story
SugarShack
Jul 2013
#1
That was the entire point of my thread. SYG instructions OBLITERATE manslaughter laws.
blm
Jul 2013
#2
Except the jury hung their hats on the SYG instructions. Instructions that TRUMP the
blm
Jul 2013
#13
If not for the re-definition of self defense thanks to SYG, Zimmerman probably would be in prison
LuckyTheDog
Jul 2013
#33