self-defense use of deadly force or nondeadly force, the way the statute reads you get that sentence in there that says you have no duty to retreat. you can stand your ground. here is a solution. let s do it together, you ready? there is no reason why that sentence should be in a jury instruction if there are no facts that support the contention of stand your ground. so i believe it should be taken out of the jury instruction and only put in if the facts support it. we do that with many other injury instructions. that would take the issue out. i don t think the zimmerman jury or the dunn jury got confused by it. i think they understood that. but i hear you. if we take that out nobody could say that there is confusion because it won t be there.
i don t think the zimmerman jury or the dunn jury got confused by it. i think they understood that. but i hear you. if we take that out nobody could say that there is confusion because it won t be there. on the stand your ground cases i still think that before a jury says we will believe that you were reasonable in your fear and that you re allowed to stand your ground they are still going to focus on the reasonableness of the fear. they don t think if you are reasonable in your fear they won t care about stand your ground. don i hear you sighing. we are so far in the weeds on this. this is basically for me. i get what you are saying about the legal system. that teen was not in the legal system before this. this is before you get to the legal system, the perception that hang on the perception that people have about young black men. to me this is about entitlement