Murder, american flags were draped in ancipation of the annual rodeo. and june 3, the county attorney opened his case against steve. by ticking off the reasons why in his view steve deserved to spend the rest of his natural life behind bars. by this time pretrial legal rulings had taken the death penalty off the table though the attorney told the jury the case was no less condemning. i will ask you to find the defendant guilty of first degree premeditated murder. first he said steve had motives and not just that $6,000 a month in alimony. no, carol, said the prosecutor, was worth a lot of money dead. the evidence will show that at the time of her death, that steven democker was the owner
Reasons why in his view steve deserved to spend the rest of his natural life behind bars. by this time, pretrial legal rulings had taken the death penalty off the table. the attorney told the jury the case was no less condemning. i want to ask you to find the defendant guilty of the first-degree premeditated murder. first he said steve had motives and not just that $6,000 a month in alimony. no, carol, said the prosecutor, was worth a lot of money dead. the evidence will show that at the time of her death that steven was the owner and beneficiary of two life insurance policies. the total was $750,000. steve and carol s daughters,
self-defense. you saw pictures there of the reverend al sharpton and a number of the protests, that one in new york. there are others across the country. holly, what s taking place there in sanford? well, basically, fredricka, the latest we heard is from former governor jeb bush. he was governor in 2005 when this stand your ground bill was written into law. that s the law that allows somebody, a civilian to use deadly force if they feel their life is threatened. now, in this case where george zimmerman has been claiming stand your ground, he says this is not exactly the case. this was not the intent. take a listen. it appears to me this law does not apply to this circumstance. stand your ground means stand your ground. it doesn t mean chase after somebody who has turned their back. now, in response police chief bill lee who has temporarily stepped down released a written statement on the city s website. he gave the reason they were using stand your ground in this situat