Friday TOON Roundup 1-Stand Your Ground

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36. You said

"cursory search will also show people (homeowners) getting arrested for murder because they shot an intruder inside their home or in a parking lot, but because they didn't turn their backs and run away first, self-defense wasn't an allowed legal defense."

Not only did you find no such case, but the4 case you did cite explicitly states that such a thing is impossible, since there is an exception to the duty to retreat if you are inside your own home! There is no d8uty to retreat when one is inside one's home, as your link clearly states not once, but twice!

I expect you did an extensive search to prove your "cursory" search claim, and managed to only come up with this one. By the way, I agree with the court here: the defendant should have moved into his house and closed the door. The fact that he didn't means (as the jury of his peers found) that he was not, in fact, merely defending himself, but rather contributing to the conflict, in which case manslaughter does apply.

As this exchange shows, in any case, the stand your ground laws were responding to a non-existent problem: the massive numbers of people convicted a sued for valid self-self defense actions. There were no massive numbers - it is a grand mythology invented by the asinine pushers of these stupid laws. Shit, homie: you couldn't even find one.