# Question about the Trayvon Martin Case?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [April 11, 2012, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-trayvon-martin-case/618504 "2012-04-11T22:28:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-trayvon-martin-case/618504/53 "2012-04-12T15:24:39Z")

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> [@Dr.Colossus](#):
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> you’re nuts, man.
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> you’re and advocate for murder.
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> i’m glad you’re just an internet no-body with no say so in anything that matters.
> 
> wow.

Well, here’s my citation for that claim:

The Florida Court of Appeals in _Owens v. State_, 289 So. 2d 472 (1974), quoted with approval _Anderson v. State_, 291 N.E.2d 579 (1973), wherein “great bodily harm” was found in a case in which the victim was struck five blows with a fist.

FSA § 776.012 says that a person may use deadly force if he reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent great bodily harm.

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