Will someone please explain if stand your ground was used as a defense in the Zimmerman trial?

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12. There is a separate law regarding immunity from criminal and civil actions

regarding justifiable use of force. That is the statute that authorizes the separate hearing - note that the hearing is not just for SYG situations but any self defense situation. It precedes the addition of SYG to the self defense law.

Z did not ask for an immunity hearing - the defense did not want to show their evidence to the prosecution before the trial. That doesn't mean that Z could not bring up stand your ground during the trial itself. You do not have to have a hearing to use SYG as a defense.

The jury saw the one and only statute on the use of deadly force in self defense. SYG is one part of the statute.

776.012 Use of force in defense of person.—A person is justified in using force, except deadly force, against another when and to the extent that the person reasonably believes that such conduct is necessary to defend himself or herself or another against the other’s imminent use of unlawful force. However, a person is justified in the use of deadly force and does not have a duty to retreat if:
(1) He or she reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the imminent commission of a forcible felony; or
(2) Under those circumstances permitted pursuant to s. 776.013.