Stand Your Ground,BREHS! Florida,Breh! Even when it's an illegal firearm! Scratch that, especially!

[mbewane]

Lol

 

[Brown_Pride]

The memo goes on to explain that Pierson qualifies for immunity from any homicide charges even though he illegally possessed the gun as a minor without a concealed carry permit. Prosecutorscite a recent Florida appeals court decisionthat concluded, even though the famed Stand Your Ground provision passed by the Florida legislature in 2005 prohibits those who are engaged in “unlawful activity” from claiming Stand Your Ground immunity, that another provision amended at the same time authorizes the use of deadly force in similar circumstances with no explicit exception for “unlawful activity.”

uhhh.,.... um ok so if someone is robbing a bank and the guard tries to shoot them couldn't they claim stand your ground?

On a more morbid side note...
Maybe I wanna see how this pans out ...in florida.
Sounds like any time you want to get brave you better be prepared to get shot. I wonder if this will have any effect on dudes getting brolic for no real reason.

I mean technically is someone even got up in your face that could be perceived as a threat right? If you shoot that dude you'd be fine?

 

[Constantine]

He's still being charged with unlawful possession of a handgun, so I don't understand the point of this thread. What usually happens in cases of self defense where the person is a felon under disability, or uses a unregistered handgun is they get charged with the crime of being under disability, or having a unliscensed handgun, or both.
http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/state/...d-tyrone-pierson-who-killed-a-40-year-old-man

Authorities say 17-year-old Tyrone Pierson shot Julius Jerome Jacobs in the head on July 5. Prosecutors say Jacobs got out of his vehicle after a verbal confrontation with the teen as they walked along a road in Ocala. He came toward Pierson and two other teens with a big stick.
Pierson will face charges that include carrying a concealed firearm and possession of a firearm by a minor.

Stand your ground isn't a automatic get out of jail card like people think it is, there have been people convicted under it.
http://www.tampabay.com/stand-your-ground-law/
http://www.npr.org/2013/07/21/20432...und-and-a-new-murder-mystery-by-john-dufresne
http://www.tampabay.com/stand-your-ground-law/fatal-cases

 

[Suicide King]

The how the fukk did Marissa Alexander get 20 years for a warning shot?

I guess this proves Michael Dunn is getting acquitted.

Yeah, I said the same thing in this thread http://www.thecoli.com/threads/i-mi...ough-evidence-to-convict-micheal-dunn.135114/

No way Dunn gets convicted.

uhhh.,.... um ok so if someone is robbing a bank and the guard tries to shoot them couldn't they claim stand your ground?

On a more morbid side note...
Maybe I wanna see how this pans out ...in florida.
Sounds like any time you want to get brave you better be prepared to get shot. I wonder if this will have any effect on dudes getting brolic for no real reason.

I mean technically is someone even got up in your face that could be perceived as a threat right? If you shoot that dude you'd be fine?

Stand your ground can't be used if you was committing a crime. But you can use it if someone throws shade your way and you feel reasonable fear.

 

[Suicide King]

In nearly a third of the cases the Times analyzed, defendants initiated the fight, shot an unarmed person or pursued their victim — and still went free.

Similar cases can have opposite outcomes. Depending on who decided their cases, some drug dealers claiming self-defense have gone to prison while others have been set free. The same holds true for killers who left a fight, only to arm themselves and return. Shoot someone from your doorway? Fire on a fleeing burglar? Your case can swing on different interpretations of the law by prosecutors, judge or jury.

Derrick Hansberry thought John Webster was having an affair with his estranged wife, so he confronted Webster on a basketball court in Dade City in 2005. A fight broke out and Hansberry shot his unarmed rival at least five times, putting him in the hospital for three weeks.

Ultimately, a jury acquitted Hansberry, but not before police and prosecutors weighed in. Neither thought Hansberry could reasonably argue self-defense because he took the gun with him and initiated the confrontation.

• During an argument at a 2009 party in Fort Myers, Omar Bonilla fired his gun into the ground and beat Demarro Battle, then went inside and gave the gun to a friend. If Battle feared for his life, he had time to flee. Instead, he got a gun from his car and returned to shoot Bonilla three times, including once in the back. Battle was not charged in the slaying.

•At another party in the same town five months later, Reginald Etienne and Joshua Sands were arguing. Etienne left the party and returned with a knife. During a fistfight between the two men, Etienne fatally stabbed Sands. He was sent to prison for life.

In West Palm Beach, Christopher Cote started pounding on the door of neighbor Jose Tapanes at 4 a.m. after an argument over Cote's dog. Tapanes stepped outside and fired his shotgun twice, killing Cote. A jury acquitted him, but prosecutors and a judge had discounted Tapanes' self-defense claim, saying if he was truly afraid for his life, he should not have stepped outside.

http://www.tampabay.com/news/public...s-some-shocking-outcomes-depending-on/1233133