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FL: How might ‘Stand Your Ground’ changes have affected the theater shooting case?
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The story is a familiar one by now: A retired Tampa police captain asked a fellow moviegoer to shut off his phone. Popcorn flew. The ex-cop pulled a gun.
Curtis Reeves, 74, claimed it was self-defense in 2014 when he killed Chad Oulson in a Pasco County movie theater. But he couldn’t prove it to a judge earlier this year.
The Florida House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday making it less difficult for people like Reeves to make such claims using the state’s “Stand Your Ground” law. The burden, instead, would be on prosecutors to prove that a criminal case should proceed if a person accused of violence against someone else claims they acted in self-defense. |
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dasing
(4/6/2017)
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| That IS how our system is supposed to work. Innocent UNTIL proven guilty!!!!! |
| Comment by:
PHORTO
(4/6/2017)
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| McCabe is admitting that the courts ran roughshod over the original law, which is what we've been saying all along. The original law statutorily placed the burden on the state, and the courts turned that provision on its head. |
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