properly for self-defense. seems simple. alexander was afraid of her husband, she had a gun, she said she used it to defend herself, seems simple enough. well it should be. the problem with it is that the instruction the way it was presented to the jury suggested that miss alexander had to prove that an aggravated battery was about to be committed by the eventual victim. the ex-husband, and obviously that burden shift takes it away from the state to cwho carries burden to prove everything, and thank god for the appellate court looking at the jury instruction does the stand your ground law apply in alexandra s case? the judge made a decision that in the pretrial hearing she did not carry the burden so that decision has been addressed in the pretrial hearing but she can still argue self-defense and in effect she stood her ground to the jury, so that hasn t been taken away from her but the