With several stories involving self-defense and open carrying making national headlines headlines recently, some may be ...

In effect in over half of US states, the laws are also associated with increased racial disparities in legal outcomes.

If the 'stand your ground' is denied you are still open to a self-defense claim at trial, but that claim will now be decided by a jury,” said Rosenberg. He said the legal part is cut and dry.

“Stand your ground” is obviously what many see as a state-mandated license to kill (black people), and which has been actually expanded in Florida since the Trayvon Martin tragedy in 2012.

Stand-your-ground is not a legal aberration. At the time of the Zimmerman trial, only 18 states did not adhere to the “stand your ground” doctrine.

"Stand your ground" laws, Hassan notes, "go further" because they "apply anyplace where a person has a legal right to be, not just at home." He cites Florida's law as an example.

She said if he had shot the suspect while the suspect was on property, attempting to commit a felony, the Stand Your Ground Law would have protected him. However, Quinones-Hollins said it becomes ...

'Stand your ground' has become a get-out-of-jail-free license to kill After the most recent Florida incident, members of Congress demand answers on a law that leaves black America vulnerable.

Stand your ground killed Jordan Neely. The stand your ground principle, as written into law, means if you’re doing something I don’t like I get to kill you.

And stand-your-ground is an amalgamation of several statutes, but primarily, the instructions that were given to the jury changed under Florida stand-your-ground law, in that the instructions that ...

Doubts about ‘stand your ground’ After Florida expanded its “Castle Doctrine” laws to a “stand your ground” provision in 2005, the National District Attorneys Association released a ...

And here is my 101st attempt, this time in the context of the hung jury on the murder charge in the Dunn trial. When you hear “stand your ground,” think “no duty to retreat.” ...