{"id":2080,"date":"2012-05-02T15:43:07","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T19:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=2080"},"modified":"2012-05-02T15:43:07","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T19:43:07","slug":"whats-so-different-about-my-situation-that-it-doesnt-apply-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=2080","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;What&#8217;s so different about my situation that it doesn&#8217;t apply to me?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#8221; being Florida&#8217;s &#8220;stand your ground&#8221; law. <a href=\"http:\/\/ac360.blogs.cnn.com\/2012\/04\/27\/stand-your-ground-plea-rejected-in-florida\/?hpt=ac_t2\">Take one look<\/a> 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:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The local NAACP believes race may have played a role.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a double standard with stand your ground,&#8221; said Isaiah Rumlin, president of the Jacksonville Chapter of the NAACP. &#8220;The law is applied differently between African-Americans and whites who are involved in these types of cases,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>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. . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder whether Alexander was judged by a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=2046\">jury of her peers<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>[H\/T <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2012\/05\/02\/20-years-for-standing-her-ground\">Jacob Sullum<\/a> at Reason]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#8221; being Florida&#8217;s &#8220;stand your ground&#8221; 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. &#8220;There&#8217;s a double standard with stand your ground,&#8221; said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2081,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions\/2081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}