One of the more imaginitive successful uses of the Stand Your Ground law here in Florida was reported today in the Tampa Bay Times where a man was found innocent of killing his wife’s lover. He awoke to find them having sex on the living room floor and shot the much younger man twice. His defense was that he thought she was being raped. She said she was so drunk, she doesn’t remember anything. Apparently, the jury bought it, or wanted to buy it, anyway.
Older impotent man with an much younger wife . . . man, you couldn’t sell this as fiction.
I’m no fan of Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law - it’s written way too broadly in my opinion.
But I’m not seeing any problem with its application here. If we accept Wald’s testimony that he witnessed Conley having non-consensual sex with Flores, then it’s a clear justified shooting.
Now if the prosecution had been able cast doubts on Wald’s testimony, he might have been convicted. But there was nothing wrong with the “Stand Your Ground” law in this case.
I waited through that whole article for a reference to “getting off.” I figured, after the Waffle House line, that it would come from the wife if nobody else.
She wasn’t being raped, that’s just crazy talk.
My memory is a little vague on the subject but I believe there used to be a law that specifically stated if you ever catch your wife in the act of boinking another man, you can pretty much shoot said man with impunity. Something about “justifiable insanity” or something like that? I can’t remember exactly.
