Tuesday, July 16, 2013

The ultimate in "get away with murder" law stupidity

This headline says it all:

Defense: 'Stand your ground' should apply to intruder who killed man in apartment

A South Carolina Supreme Court order has brought a Columbia murder trial to a screeching halt after the alleged gunman's attorney argued the state's 'stand your ground' law should be invoked because his client feared for his own life after breaking into another man's apartment.

Well, he is an "otherwise law abiding citizen"--it's those pesky laws that make them criminals.

4 comments:

  1. Laci, you claim to be an attorney. I've even seen your lawfirm's page talking about your qualifications. How can you act so ignorant here? The Supreme Court is considering a procedural question related to the trial, not whether Stand Your Ground applies to someone in the act of committing a crime. As the article stated, the law does not give immunity to someone who is in the process of criminal activity.

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  2. You're confusing "lawyer stupidity" with "law stupidity".

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  3. The evolution of the term used for this law is getting pretty wild. It started with the original "stand your ground". Then it became the "shoot first" law. And now we've moved on to the "get away with murder" law. I wonder what it will become next?

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  4. It is INSANE for the intruder to invoke stand your ground protection. You may LEGALLY stand your ground anywhere you have a right to be. This idiot intruder (and his lawyer) did NOT have a right to be in another mans apartment by breaking and entering unlawfully. He IS NOT an "otherwise law abiding citizen"!

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