Prosecutors aren't required to aggressively prosecute cases of real self defense, but a phony claim as defender of self shouldn't be able to stand behind a 'Stand Your Ground Law' cowardly murderers are using.
By the same token, no prosecutor or police official is required to use such a law to fail to litigate
on behalf of unarmed victims.
What does it mean for a murderer to have said on an official police taped phone line,"These assholes always get away with it..."?
Is the speaker knowledgeable about who the "assholes" are, and what exactly it is "they" are "getting away with..."? Has the speaker decided on his own as a legal official, as the jury, as the judge, that Trayvon Martin was already one of the "assholes" before he gunned him down?
If so, and no need for an arrest has presented, Sanford, Florida has laws suborning terrorism.
Most times, judges and juries don't throw the book at someone who protects himself, even if there is no law in that state allowing people to gun down unarmed persons.
These new laws are like the new voter registration laws. They are, in John Robert's own words,
'elephant whistles'. There are no elephants to call.
We do not have a hoard of people doing time for real self defense crimes.
A lot more jails would have to be built for that; because the space in our jails is mostly reserved
for young black men who have supposedly been caught with marijuana.
Even so, if a person does claim' Stand Your Ground', let a jury decide if that is what murderers
are doing. Nothing in that law demands a policy of "arresting officers take the killer's word for it".
If the law said that, it wouldn't be a law at all. It would be a license- a license the public and the
DOJ would have to revoke.
As a matter of fact, maybe that is what has to happen right now, some revoking.
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