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X_Digger

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5. No doubt.. but it's the police's cock-up here..

Reply to gateley (Reply #3)

Tue Mar 20, 2012, 11:50 PM

Mar 2012

It's black letter law, as I read it, that Zimmerman is precluded from using this defense.

Zimmerman was the aggressor (an assumption at this point). The second section of law says that you can't use this defense if you're the aggressor (under most circumstances).

The police's refusal to charge Zimmerman- that's what's got me gobsmacked. There's nothing in the law that would preclude charging him.

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Florida's Make My Day law -- [View all] gateley Mar 2012 OP

The asshole that pushed this bill thru is named Dennis Baxley russspeakeasy Mar 2012 #1

It was a bit hyperbolic there.. X_Digger Mar 2012 #2

But that appears to be what is happening (Zimmerman can't claim that he chased the guy down..." he gateley Mar 2012 #3

No doubt.. but it's the police's cock-up here.. X_Digger Mar 2012 #5

You'd think the police would be scrambling to do SOMETHING with all this national gateley Mar 2012 #8

Well, now they're between a rock and a hard place. X_Digger Mar 2012 #10

Still big enough wholes to drive a truck thru. safeinOhio Mar 2012 #4

That part of the law isn't new, and hasn't been overly problematic. X_Digger Mar 2012 #6

In most cases it becomes the alive shooters word over safeinOhio Mar 2012 #7

Word of the alive shooter versus the totality of the evidence. X_Digger Mar 2012 #9

The relevance to MM piece is safeinOhio Mar 2012 #12

Zimmerman Go Vols Mar 2012 #11