re: #420 Targetpractice

All the more reason to revise the laws or to strike them. Not say that, despite a defendant not breaking the law, he should be convicted anyway because we simply don’t like the actions he took.

That a perfectly respectable position in my view, although I personally think Z is guilty of at least manslaughter. I don’t understand what the prosecution was thinking with murder 2 as the main charge, and manslaughter only being brought in (apparently) at the last minute.

With respect to changes in the law, any “stand your ground law” should include a duty to retreat from any confrontation outside of ones home or other real estate, IMO.

It is the lack of that duty to retreat in public that appears to have created this mess.