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Bad Lip Reading Does the 2013 Independent Spirit Awards

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blueraven2/26/2013 8:18:10 pm PST

re: #111 Dark_Falcon

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.

Then they should use “self defense”. It is purely semantics to say they are not using SYG while hoping to get totally immunity from criminal prosecution or even a civil case built on the provisions of the SYG law.

They are using SYG or they are not. Cant have it both ways.