Quote:Wrong again. Self defense does not equal stand your ground.

 

Stand your ground will NEVER be a part of jury instructions. Stand your ground is a pretrial motion which is either successful or not. If it is successful, there is no trial, and therefore no jury instructions, period.

 

So again, this is so clear, I have no idea how anyone can't understand it. If you are attempting to play on a nuance of the phrase, fine. I'll play along and give you your cookie. However, if you read the context of the debate, it is night and day clear. Zimmerman was NOT a stand your ground case. You all can try to make it that, but you can't change facts.

 

Enough with the condescension, I never use that on you. If you want to play the game of adding insult to argument, I can play that way.

 

There is no stand your ground statute. It is one section of a list of items that define justifiable homicide. When the judge instructed the jury to consider self-defense, she included an explanation of standing one's ground as it is used to define self defense. It was very clear in her instructions. That it was not used by the defense to have the case dismissed, which would make it a Stand Your Ground case. They didn't, so it was not. But it was in the instructions.

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