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Blacks benefit from Florida ‘Stand Your Ground’ law at dispr

hypocritexposer

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Blacks benefit from Florida ‘Stand Your Ground’ law at disproportionate rate



African Americans benefit from Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” self-defense law at a rate far out of proportion to their presence in the state’s population, despite an assertion by Attorney General Eric Holder that repealing “Stand Your Ground” would help African Americans.

Black Floridians have made about a third of the state’s total “Stand Your Ground” claims in homicide cases, a rate nearly double the black percentage of Florida’s population. The majority of those claims have been successful, a success rate that exceeds that for Florida whites.

Nonetheless, prominent African Americans including Holder and “Ebony and Ivory” singer Stevie Wonder, who has vowed not to perform in the Sunshine State until the law is revoked, have made “Stand Your Ground” a central part of the Trayvon Martin controversy.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/16/blacks-benefit-from-florida-stand-your-ground-law-at-disproportionate-rate/#ixzz2ZMZ4XB6s
 

Tam

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Well Well Well seems the Race Baiters that are demanding the abolishment of STAND YOUR GROUND over a case that STAND YOUR GROUND was not used by the Defense might just want to look at the stats before they open their big fat mouths and eliminate it for the ones that really use it to stay out of prison. :roll:

As far as Stevie Wonder he said he would not preform in Florida or any other state that has a Stand Your Ground Law until they abolish that law. Doesn't he live in California a STAND YOUR GROUND STATE? :?


Fact: Stand Your Ground is the law in 38 states. Those states are: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.

The other 12 states also have some version of Stand Your Ground, but it is limited in some states to when you are in your home, in other states to your home or vehicle, in other states home, vehicle, and workplace, and in other states it includes other peoples' homes as well.

Not every one of these states passed a law called "Stand Your Ground." Some states, like California (I am a California criminal defense attorney), have Stand Your Ground based on case law handed down by the courts over decades and centuries. Other states, also including California, have Stand Your Ground codified into their justifiable homicide statutes. Some passed it by voter initiative and others passed it through legislative acts. But, 38 states have no duty to retreat from any place where you have a right to be. The other 12 have no duty to retreat in certain places.

Looks like Old Stevie better consider retirement if he plans on living up to his comment, as with the Attitudes of the NEW SCHOOL GENERATION every State in the Union is going to have to have Stand Your Ground laws to protect the OLD SCHOOL GENERATION from them. :x
 

Steve

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States with weak or no specific Castle Law

These states uphold castle doctrine in general, but may rely on case law instead of specific legislation, may enforce a duty to retreat, and may impose specific restrictions on the use of deadly force.

District of Columbia
Nebraska - a bill was introduced in January 2012 that allowed deadly force against a person who broke into a house or occupied vehicle or who tried to kidnap someone from a house or vehicle, however the bill was revised to include only an affirmative defense from lawsuits pertaining to justifiable use of force.[24]
New Mexico
New York - Allows for the use of "reasonable force" in self-defense against Home Invasion.[citation needed]
South Dakota "Homicide is justifiable if committed by any person while resisting any attempt to murder such person, or to commit any felony upon him or her, or upon or in any dwelling house in which such person is." SD Codified Laws 22-16-34 (2005).
Vermont

there is no hope for DC or New York,.. but I am sure South Dakota can get a decent Stand your ground law introduced... and passed..

sure would send a message to Obama and the 2nd amendment abolitionists..


Do we have to start a petition or will a PM do? :lol:
 
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