This quote is from the local news source linked to in the newser article I linked in my OP.
Stand your ground ?? How does someone decide which part of the ground to stand on after they have successfully snuck up on the ones they are having an ongoing dispute with ?
Quote:
Officials say Woodward snuck up on a Labor Day barbecue and opened fire at about 12:30 a.m. on Sept. 3, 2012. Police arrived and found Gary Lee Hembree, Roger Picior and Bruce Timothy Blake all had been shot. Hembree and Picior died of their injuries. Blake, who was hit 11 times, survived.
Before the incident, police had responded numerous times to the ongoing dispute, according to a release. Woodward and Hembree went to court to discuss the dispute before Judge John D. Moxley. Moxley did not issue an injunction.
In the hours before the shooting, the men called him names, and said “Come on boys. We’re going to get him. We’re going to get him, all three of us.”
Florida law allows people to use deadly force to protect against “imminent death or…prevent the imminent commission of a forcible felony.”
So what is “imminent”?
Assistant State Attorney Wayne Holmes explained that imminence in a Stand Your Ground case would be determined based on the facts and circumstances of the case – there isn’t a concrete legal definition.
“As with many things in not only the law, but life in general, you’ve got to have a certain amount of flexibility,” he said, later adding: “There’s a certain amount of ability to take the facts, whatever they may be and apply it to that law. Sometimes it fits perfectly; sometimes it doesn’t fit at all.”
https://www.floridatoday.com/article/20130904/NEWS01/309040021/Titusville-slaying-suspect-claims-he-stood-his-ground?gcheck=1&nclick_check=1
Sep 05, 2013 @ 02:28:13
I misread your SYG as DSG and I'm all like, what do I have to do with this?
