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Senate advancing bill to change “stand your ground” law

Published on November 18, 2015 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Brendan Farrington

A bill that would force prosecutors to prove self-defense wasn’t a factor before bringing someone using a “stand your ground” defense to trial advanced in the Senate on Wednesday despite a similar House bill being killed the day before. The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal Justice approved the bill on a 5-1 vote. But its future is in doubt because a companion House bill died the day before on a tie vote. Sen. Rob Bradley said he’s not giving up…

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Man says wife beat him prior to her slaying, posting photo of body on Facebook

Published on November 3, 2015 in Apolitical/Top Headlines by Associated Press

A man who killed his wife and posted a photo of her corpse on Facebook shot her in self-defense because he lived in fear of her drug abuse, violent tendencies, and even Satan worship, the man’s attorney said Monday. Defense attorney Saam Zangeneh said Monday that he will seek to introduce evidence that 27-year-old Jennifer Alfonso was an avid user of synthetic drugs such as Ecstasy, that she battered her husband, and that she was deeply involved in the occult…

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Dennis Baxley files bill to aid self-defense claimants

Published on September 15, 2015 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Ryan Ray

State Rep. Dennis Baxley — father of Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law — filed a bill Tuesday that would tweak the state’s self-defense statutes. Baxley’s newly filed HB 169 is designed to enhance the legal standing of defendants who claim they acted in self-defense while using or threatening to use deadly force in a dispute. The bill would shift the legal burden of proof away from the person employing a self-defense claim in court — as current law provides — onto “the party seeking to…

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