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Posted on 7/14/13 at 3:12 pm to bdelarosa7
Posted on 7/14/13 at 3:12 pm to bdelarosa7
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Why does it matter what other states standard of self-defense is? The incident happened in Florida by a man who was licensed in Florida to carry a concealed weapon and was familiar with Florida state law
This has been the entire point of my argument, that the common law rule operates differently from the FLA statute, and that the common law rule is more reasonable. I have never maintained that the jury reached an illogical or unfair result, based on the law.
Originally, I thought most states still adhered to the common law rule (or some stat interpretation thereof), but I just read something that suggests the FLA statute is actually more common than I was led to believe from other sources. I haven't been able to confirm it, yet.
Regardless, I still tend to side w/ the CL view, as I've been saying endlessly in this thread. You're going to hear a lot of discussion in the coming days a/b whether current statutory rules are fair and necessary.
That's enough discussion for one day.
This post was edited on 7/14/13 at 3:13 pm
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Posted on 7/14/13 at 3:17 pm to CHSgc
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that the common law rule operates differently from the FLA statute
The Florida statute was based off common law and so it is NOT significantly different than most states self-defense law. Additionally, most states have codified their self-defense law and are no longer simply case law.
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Regardless, I still tend to side w/ the CL view, as I've been saying endlessly in this thread. You're going to hear a lot of discussion in the coming days a/b whether current statutory rules are fair and necessary.
As I said before, this is a discussion of politics because the law in question does not fit with you're political beliefs and ideology.
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