Post by: Hi-Liter on July 16, 2013, 09:23:18 PM
Holder took aim at "stand your ground" laws like the one in Florida that have expanded the right to respond with deadly force if attacked outside the home.
Those laws "try to fix something that was never broken" and "senselessly expand the concept of self-defense and sow dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods," he said.
"By allowing -- and perhaps encouraging -- violent situations to escalate in public, such laws undermine public safety," Holder said in his first public comment on legislation that more than 30 states have passed in some form.
By Tom Cohen, CNN
updated 9:09 PM EDT, Tue July 16, 2013
Post by: fastdam on July 16, 2013, 09:38:01 PM
Post by: Fl0und3rz on July 16, 2013, 10:32:50 PM
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/341684.php (http://ace.mu.nu/archives/341684.php)
See also, http://reason.com/blog/2013/07/14/sorry-the-zimmerman-case-still-has-nothi (http://reason.com/blog/2013/07/14/sorry-the-zimmerman-case-still-has-nothi)
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Knocked down and pinned to the ground by Martin, Zimmerman would not have had an opportunity to escape as Martin hit him and knocked his head against the concrete. The duty to retreat therefore was irrelevant. The initial decision not to arrest Zimmerman, former Sanford, Florida, Police Chief Bill Lee said last week (as paraphrased by CNN), "had nothing to do with Florida's controversial 'Stand Your Ground' law" because "from an investigative standpoint, it was purely a matter of self-defense."
Never let a crisis go to waste for these tyrants, while the dunderheaded low info voters just eat it up.
Post by: csaaphill on July 17, 2013, 12:44:58 AM
Very glad that the jury had comon sense.
Post by: Dave Workman on July 17, 2013, 06:31:27 PM
Attorney General Eric Holder yesterday set his sights on the legal concept of “Stand Your Ground” (SYG) laws while addressing the NAACP annual convention, deflecting attention from the shrinking likelihood he will pursue federal charges against Florida citizen George Zimmerman, acquitted over the weekend of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.
http://www.examiner.com/article/holder-plays-deflection-game-with-attack-on-syg (http://www.examiner.com/article/holder-plays-deflection-game-with-attack-on-syg)
Post by: Fl0und3rz on July 25, 2013, 09:52:10 AM
http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/07/houston-gas-station- (http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/07/houston-gas-station-)
shooting-syg-or-not-break-it-down-with-aoj/
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Take-Home Message: Keep Conduct Utterly Consistent with Consciousness of Innocence, At ALL Times
Of course, the Zimmerman prosecutors brought their case with far less evidence than here. The take home message is that if these Houston prosecutors do not bring this woman to trial based upon her post-shooting conduct, it is not because they can’t try to do so, it’s because they’ve chosen not to do so. The power and authority is in their hands, not hers.
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For this reason it is always, always, always essential to conduct yourself in a manner entirely consistent with consciousness of innocence, before, during, and after a self-defense conflict. Doing so preserves your lawyer’s ability to conduct a compelling narrative of innocence for the police investigators, for the prosecutors, for the Court, and for the jury. And it’s that compelling narrative of innocence that is the only thing standing between you and a life time of jailhouse joy.
Post by: JJD on August 05, 2013, 09:54:06 AM