Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bell, Pamela Cole

Titel

Stand Your Ground Laws: Mischaracterized, Misconstrued, and Misunderstood

Ist Teil von

• The University of Memphis law review, 2015-12, Vol.46 (2), p.383

Ort / Verlag

Memphis: University of Memphis

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

Nexis Uni

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• [...]the law incorporated statutory provisions already recognized in other states for decades and required the same basic traditional components for the use of self-defense.7 As other states joined Florida in updating and strengthening their self-defense laws to protect law-abiding citizens, the criticisms, mischaracterizations, and misunderstanding of no retreat self-defense laws grew.8 This Article seeks to clarify the purpose of and protections afforded by these and other self-defense laws and to dispel the doomsday predictions made by many commentators and critics after Florida joined the majority. [...]Part VI provides a conclusion and urges no retreat states to maintain or strengthen their protections for law-abiding citizens; challenges retreat states to reconsider their self-defense laws; and rebukes the media, commentators, and politicians for misrepresenting the requirements, application, and effect of "stand your ground" laws.