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Certified Conflict: Standing Your Ground

By Matt Conigliaro, Esq.

In 2005, Florida adopted this law, which codified and expanded the common law's castle doctrine to include homes and vehicles and eliminated the duty to retreat from places where a person has a right to be. Some may recall the claims, including those made by major media such as the Washington Post, that Florida was wrongly codifying the ways of the Wild West and making more work for morticians.

Full post as published by Abstract Appeal on June 01, 2009 (boomark / email).