“What’s so different about my situation that it doesn’t apply to me?”
“It” being Florida’s “stand your ground” law. Take one look at the questioner, Marissa Alexander, whom a jury convicted in 12 minutes, and who now faces 20 years in prison, and you may have your answer:
The local NAACP believes race may have played a role.
“There’s a double standard with stand your ground,” said Isaiah Rumlin, president of the Jacksonville Chapter of the NAACP. “The law is applied differently between African-Americans and whites who are involved in these types of cases,” he added.
Rumlin cited two shooting cases in Florida with white shooters: One had a successful stand your ground defense and the other has yet to be charged with a crime. . . .
I wonder whether Alexander was judged by a jury of her peers?
[H/T Jacob Sullum at Reason]
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