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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.

Can't let this slide: the statute may be "based" off common law but it inverts the burden of proof. That is a substantial difference that has real world consequences. And yes, most states have codified their self-defense law and originally I was under the impression that most adopted some form of the common law roughly verbatim. As I posted above, that info I received may be incorrect, and I'm going to look into it further once I get more free time.

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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.

It has nothing to do w/ political beliefs. I'm not even sure what would be the "liberal" position here. As I maintained earlier, I think a significant departure from the common law could be construed as liberal. You could also make an argument that it is conservative... it's not one of those issues that has a readily identifiable political bias.

Alright, that's it, I promise.

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Posted by bdelarosa7

Dallas, TX

Member since Nov 2012

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Posted on 7/14/13 at 3:28 pm to CHSgc

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the statute may be "based" off common law but it inverts the burden of proof.

Despite the so-called "inversion", the defense did demonstrate that Zimmerman was in reasonable fear of great bodily harm/death and used deadly force appropriately to fend off that result. It is because of this, I do not understand why you are caught up on this "inversion" when the defense did not sit back and force the prosecution to disprove this claim, they were active in their demonstration of the reasonable use of self-defense.

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It has nothing to do w/ political beliefs.

I never said you were left or right politically. I said when you start debating about the validity of a law you enter the realm of politics which is what this discussion devolved into.