re: #100 blueraven

Yes, they are using the SYG law, they just dont want to say they are using SYG. Who’s misleading who?

They are using a hearing option grant by the law of that name, while not claiming the basis of justification the law set up. It’s splitting hairs, but the law often provides for hairsplitting distinctions. It’s also an attempt to divorce the case from a controversial legal provision. The defense attorney is essentially saying “Regardless of how you feel about Stand Your Ground, this case isn’t about that provision. George Zimmerman could not retreated from his assailant*, thus that provision does not apply.”

*: “His assailant” is the term defense counsel would likely use in making that statement, the object being to making Trayvon Martin into the bad guy of the fatal encounter. I used such language purely to produce a simulated quote and for no other purpose.