It’s important to distinguish between the Stand Your Ground law, §776.013(3), Fla. Stat.*, and the immunity doctrine that was passed in the same bill but appears in a separate section of the Florida Statutes, §776.032(1).
The latter was at issue in the Zimmerman trial. The former was not, because Zimmerman took the position that he could not have retreated in any event as he was on the ground.
Both are stupid, and I suspect there will be much talk of repeal. The NRA isn’t going to want to spend as much money to keep the law as it spent to pass it.
- “A person who is not engaged in an unlawful activity and who is attacked in any other place where he or she has a right to be has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground and meet force with force, including deadly force if he or she reasonably believes it is necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony.”