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: New York Supreme Court Criminal Term LibraryMiami Arrests Killer In Test Of "Stand Your Ground" Law
By David Badertscher, PLL
Source: Crime & Justice News
"More than five months after claiming self-defense in the fatal shooting of two unarmed men in a restaurant parking lot, Gabriel Mobley was arrested yesterday in Florida for murder, the Miami Herald reports. Prosecutors believe the case is a key test of Florida's 2005 so-called Stand Your Ground law, which loosened standards for shooting in self-defense. Mobley, 31, is accused of fatally shooting two friends.
''This arrest is very important because it sends a clear message. The Legislature passed the new Stand Your Ground law but it is not a free-for-all to execute people,'' said Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle. Under the state's previous self- defense law, a citizen had the duty to retreat before using deadly force to meet deadly force. Under the 2005 law, that duty is gone.'"
Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on June 26, 2008 (boomark / email).
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