re: #26 Daniel Ballard

It’s becoming a scapegoat.

I don’t think so. There’s plenty of blame attatching to other things, like someone with a gun doing a ‘neighborhood watch’ thing while armed, his pursuit of Trayvon, the profiling he appears to have done. SYG is one of the elements that’s being called into question.

Not that it should stand as is. But Sanford could easily have blown this without SYG on the books.

Maybe. But you have to consider that the failure to get prosecutions under SYG is probably one of the reasons the prosecutor dropped this. The prosecutor has to consider if he can get a conviction with the laws on the books.

I’d love to ask him or a Judge how pursuit is defense. That’s what gets me.

They’ve already answered this: it’s because the language of the law is about the moment of the attack, and doesn’t take something like pursuit into account.