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Thread: Florida MAn found Guilty in Stand Your Ground Case

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    Retreating? Are we looking at the same video tape? He was shot in the chest so he was still facing the shooter. Can you say for certain he was not planning on making another, more dangerous run at him? I can't and I would suspect neither could the shooter.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    So what caused the fight?
    Drejka started the fight.
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    I know the whole story from when it happened, the guy that shot that guy was NOT standing his ground, he and his lawyers tried to get him out of murder conviction using that defense.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Reason10 View Post
    It's strange that the guy had four attorneys. He doesn't look like he could afford them.
    Defense attorneys don't work cheap.
    They flock to chances to make a name for themselves and get some media exposure though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by alexa View Post
    Free publicity

    LOL. You could of saved me a response if I had seen this first.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Private Pickle View Post
    Drejka started the fight.
    Not with the dead man and wasn't really threatening the woman in the car.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nathanbforrest45 View Post
    Retreating? Are we looking at the same video tape? He was shot in the chest so he was still facing the shooter. Can you say for certain he was not planning on making another, more dangerous run at him? I can't and I would suspect neither could the shooter.
    as I previously stated, if he as coming back for more..........
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    A few weeks ago I was at Sam's. It was in the high nineties and I didn't want my wife to have to walk through the parking lot in that heat. So, I pulled up right outside the exit door, making sure I was not blocking traffic while she got into the car. I got out to load our purchases. Some middle age man came up to me yelling and screaming that I was an idiot by stopping my car (a whole three minutes or less) and getting in people's way. Now, he wasn't in a car, he wasn't trying to get past me (other cars did with no problem) he was just a flaming $#@!.

    My question is would it have been appropriate if a friend or neighbor had come along and knocked his ass to the ground and then make threatening gestures to him? As for me, I simply told him to go away and I would be out of his way in short order. Was I afraid he was going to attack me? Not really, he was too far away from me and I had my cane to keep him from coming closer. The point is you don't know what someone who would physically attack you would do beyond that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crepitus View Post
    This wasn't a case of "stand your ground", the guy was retreating when he was shot.

    I'm not a huge fan of the "stand your ground" law either. Seems there's a certain small segment of the population that believes it's a license to kill.
    That might be true, although, the fact that this guy was convicted of murder shows that you can have stand your ground laws in place, and the system still makes a nuance between what standing your ground is and what murder is.

    In short, the law isn't flawed. The interpretation of the law by certain violent people is, but you can't legislate that away.

    The alternative is having a system where people have no right to defend themselves, which is basically what has happened in a lot of other jurisdictions, like much of Europe.

    I'd rather err on the side of self-defense.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nathanbforrest45 View Post
    Not with the dead man and wasn't really threatening the woman in the car.
    Regardless he started the fight. Something tells me if someone was screaming at your woman you would step in.

    He got pushed to the ground. He pulled his gun. The guy actually took a step back and started to turn around. Then Drejka shot him. Stand your Ground is not a license to kill someone because they pushed you to the ground in order to shut that big $#@!ing mouth.

    Drejka shouldn't have been out there playing wonder cop in the first place.
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