Is Shooting people causing you legal problems? Toon

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8. In your case of black-on-white homicide, SYG is likely beneficial.

SYG is not "invoked" against anybody. SYG are a set of laws that set the standard for and shift burden of proof to the prosocution meaning the state must now PROVE the killer did NOT act in self defense. In practice, SYG means that a conviction must be based on physical or eyewitness evidence. By definition, SYG moves the case further down the path of "innocent until proven guilty" thereby making the any case of self defense easier to win. Prior to SYG and CD laws, a defendant usually had to convince the jury that a killing was self defense - this can be more difficult with racial prejudice and a black defendant likely talking to a mostly/all white jury.

If you are black and just killed a white person in self defense... you should hope there are SYG laws because now a prosocution has to present facts that disprove your story. Regardless of your skin complexion, SYG dictates your story stands until PROVEN otherwise.