"Drejka lands on his back and McGlockton takes a step toward him."
What would you have done being that you were in a stand your ground State?
And that’s the problem with this unwarranted indictment: it needlessly muddies the legal waters as to how Floridians might lawfully use deadly force in self-defense.
However much one might disagree with the Zimmerman verdict, it nonetheless set precedent in Florida self-defense case law this State attorney is failing to follow.
It rests solely on when you change from being the attacked to being the attacker
Not if the person using lethal self-defense perceives the attack to be imminent and ongoing.
Requires a suspension of belief
If your interpretation of Florida’s law is correct, anyone with a gun can fire based on a dirty look or someone following you
I felt threatened .....
Code for.....the guy was black
It’s not my interpretation – again, don’t kill the messenger.
And no, Florida law doesn’t sanction the use of deadly force in self-defense because someone follows you or looks at you the wrong way.
It may be impossible to refine the law to the point where there are settled, accepted criteria as to when deadly force is justified in an act of self-defense and when it is not.
The outcome of this case will either provide some clarity on the subject or make the law that much more confusing and inconsistent.