re: #108 Obdicut

And it entirely depends on what you think ‘precipitates’ means. Does simply following someone and confronting them count? If so, that conclusion would massively weaken self-defense claims in general. Doesn’t seem wise to me.

Not to mention that if everything in Zimmerman’s claim is true, big if but whatever, he turned around and was retreating before contact was initiated by Martin. The problem is that the law raises the overall burden of proof for an arrest to the levels usually required for conviction, and that just constitutes a horrible hamstringing of homicide detectives. Looking at the big picture, the entirety of the law and how it’s been applied in specific instances, I don’t understand how anyone can believe it’s not fundamentally flawed.