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

And homicides with White shooters, Black victims ruled justifiable 4 times more often than when roles were reversed.

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.

Before the stand-your-ground law was passed in 2005, the instruction would have read that Zimmerman "cannot justify his use of force likely to cause death or great bodily harm if by retreating he ...

“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.

Well, Stand Your Ground laws take an older idea, something called the castle doctrine, an old principle that people may have heard of the castle doctrine goes back to the Middle Ages, a person's ...

More than 30 states have put stand your ground laws in place over the past 20 years. Lave says that what’s happened over the last few weeks is what “stand your ground” really looks like.

Woods cited Florida's controversial "Stand Your Ground" law, adopted in 2005, as the reason it took so long to charge Lorincz. The legislation sets guidelines for when and how a person can defend ...

An appeals court has denied Preston Brewer’s self-defense claim in the February 2023 shooting death of Garrett Hughes at the ...

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.

The proposed stand-your-ground legislation is comprehensive and also provides for protection in the event a person invites ...

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.” ...