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In reply to the discussion: Friday TOON Roundup 1-Stand Your Ground [View all]alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)42. Or maybe it was, in fact, negligent manslaughter
That defense attorneys will, "hundreds of times a year" try to represent such a case as "self-defense" is obvious to anybody with a cursory knowledge of NBC police procedurals. That such claims are almost always bullshit is also fairly obvious (though I will say that it is amusing to see the NRA types embracing defense attorneys for a change). I'm still waiting to see the boatload of cases where a clean self-defense shoot was aggressively prosecuted as a murder. Whenever you scratch the surface of these poor saps forced into a self-defense killing, you notice that the cousin had a grudge, and similar situations. Or, it's a pharmacist who straight up and with malice aforethought executed a defenseless and wounded robber. Big fan of that guy, too, I suppose?
It's a myth.
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Well then why the fuck is the Z fuck not in jail while the legal beagles sort it out?
xtraxritical
Mar 2012
#5
I too will think twice before visiting any of these states. There are an awful lot (23) though.
freefall
Mar 2012
#8