# Florida's Stand Your Ground law - good or bad law? Poorly understood?

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**Created:** [March 22, 2012, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/floridas-stand-your-ground-law-good-or-bad-law-poorly-understood/616560 "2012-03-22T23:59:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/floridas-stand-your-ground-law-good-or-bad-law-poorly-understood/616560/21 "2012-03-23T03:42:11Z")

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Some background on the Neighborhood Watch case, so it does not confuse things:

It’s not relevant to the Stand-Your-Ground law, although the perpetrator _claimed_ it was. In this case, said Watch Captain hunted a specific individual and basically murdered him in cold blood. The Police then completely boned the case from start to finish, to such a degree that what should have been an open-and-shut case is not probably unprosecutable. But all there was, was plain murder and bad policework.

Yes, the murderer claimed he was acting in self-defense. Why not? He stood to lose nothing by doing so and clouding the issue. In that respect, at least, it is similar to the case under discussion.

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