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Making the case that the 'Stand Your Ground Law' does not shield George Zimmerman from prosecution under Florida law.

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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)3/24/2012 6:50:03 pm PDT

re: #132 Decatur Deb

His behavior would have given Martin a definite fear for his own safety. As WW and Sergey pointed out, that probably triggered Martin’s SYG rights. This is a formula for a bunch of fatal ‘misunderstandings”. I’ll let the lawyers figure out how legal Zimmerman’s behavior was. Reckless endangerment, anyone?

I think both of them, according to this law, may have had valid SYG defenses, since Martin was being pursued by a strange, armed man, and Zimmerman may have been ‘attacked’ (for the best of reasons) by a young man attempting to disarm him.