A Miami man will face trial for murder after a judge rejected his request for immunity under Florida's 'stand your ground' ...

Stand your ground laws effectively expand the boundaries of the castle doctrine to the wider world, removing the duty to retreat and allowing people to use lethal force anywhere they have a legal ...

Florida passed the nation’s first stand your ground law 20 years ago. Since then, 37 other states have followed suit, and ...

Florida’s attorney general, James Uthmeier, quickly announced that open carry is now “the law of the state,” directing law ...

Joshua Badillo was charged in a 2022 fatal shooting outside a Haines City bar involving members of a biker club. The judge ...

FILE - Authorities investigate the scene of a fatal shooting Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019, in Miramar, Fla. A Florida police union leader blasted prosecutors Monday, July 29, 2024, for charging four ...

Stand-your-ground laws, which are in effect in more than half of U.S. states, are associated with higher homicide rates, increased racial disparities in legal outcomes, and broader public costs, ...

Maria Florinda Rios Perez De Velasquez’s mistaken arrival at the wrong Indiana address Wednesday cost her her life. As the house cleaner tried to enter the home she thought was scheduled for ...

The fatal shooting in early November of a house cleaner who mistakenly went to the wrong address in Indiana feels hauntingly ...