Man Who Shot Bystander Granted Immunity Under Stand Your Ground Laws [View all]
Source: The New York Times
A man charged with killing a bystander in Columbia, S.C., has been granted immunity from prosecution after citing the state’s Stand Your Ground Act. In the early morning hours of April 17, 2010, an S.U.V. filled with teenage boys had been threatening Shannon Scott’s 15-year-old daughter, driving by their home and firing a gun. Shortly after, Darrel Niles, 17, a high school basketball player, drove by, and mistakenly believing Niles was involved with the earlier menacing, Scott, 33, shot him in the head with a .380 bullet, killing him instantly.
“He ascertained the threat and he reacted,” said Todd Rutherford, who is both Scott’s lawyer and the Democratic state representative who helped write the law in 2006. When questioned about a conflict of interest in his defense of Scott, Rutherford replied, “Who better to defend the law than someone who helped to write it?”
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It just keeps getting stupider.
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