"Stand your ground" law in Florida is applied differently according to defendant's race/ethnicity.

[kentonio]

She rejected a 3 year plea deal and chose to roll the dice.

Plea deals piss me off. Why should admitting a crime change the sentence from 20 years to 3? Over and over again it seems to act as a way of getting innocent people to just not risk trying to prove their innocence because in doing so they could end up with a sentence thats 5 times as long.

[rah]

I think even 3 years is a bit harsh in this instance.

[Felch]

I said the judge should have resigned, but nullification aint legal. Jurors are told to determine the facts and not impose their morality on the law - just like the judge.

The great state of Maryland has jury nullification enshrined in our Constitution. One more reason why our swampy hellhole is better than other swampy hellholes like Florida.

[Berzerker]

She fled to the garage (a place with an exit). got a gun, and then went back to confront the husband.

I'll repeat this because it matters - the guy had priors and a restraining order! Thats concrete - its illogical and immoral to expect a mother to run away and leave her kids behind with an ahole like that, putting her in a cage for 20 years for fending him off without injury to anyone is very

[DinoDoc]

its illogical and immoral to expect a mother to run away and leave her kids behind with an ahole like that

The only one in this incident who seems to have put the kids in physical danger is the mother by firing a badly aimed shot in their dwelling.

[Berzerker]

the dude beats up women and he violated a restraining order and you dont think he was a threat?

[Felch]

It's strange, but if she'd just shot him, without firing any warning shots, she probably wouldn't have been arrested. He didn't belong in the house, there was a restraining order against him, and he's a black man with a history of violence. If the cops showed up to find him dead, they'd have shrugged their shoulders, congratulated the woman on a good kill, and gone about their paperwork. But law isn't about what's right or wrong, it's about legal and illegal. If people realized that the law isn't a moral code, maybe they'd quit looking to the government to solve all their problems.