re: #291 palomino

So the jury hears an instruction from the judge on SYG, but all of them know to disregard this portion of the instructions because…what exactly?

Kinda hard to unring that bell, don’t you think?

From ABC….

Others mistakenly claim these are “stand your ground” cases because the entire self defense statute is read to Florida jurors with the stand your ground language included. But, of course, reading jury instructions with some language that is inapplicable to the case at hand is common in all types of cases and says nothing about whether the controversial aspects of the law are at issue.