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X_Digger

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9. Word of the alive shooter versus the totality of the evidence.

Wed Mar 21, 2012, 12:06 AM

Mar 2012

But then, that's always been the case in self-defense cases, and hasn't changed.

Cops have shot people who had a finger in their pocket claiming it was a gun- in that case, is the officer justified? If so, it's not whether it actually was a gun, or a wallet, or a cell phone- but what a reasonable person would believe.

Not that I'm intimating that Trayvon pretended to have a gun, but you keep bringing up the MM piece as though it has some relevance in the situation. Why, I'm not sure.

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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