Tag: stand your ground

Steven Tyler Whitehead standing trial for shoooting death of Kimber Mills, Alabama cheerleader at bonfire party claims legal self defense in Stand Your Ground defense as he seeks to get case acquitted.  A man accused of fatally shooting an Alabama cheerleader...

Will Savanna Retheford & Hunter Fuqua face charges in shooting death of Sean Six? Tulsa prosecutors to weigh Stand Your Ground doctrine which allows the use of lethal force in 'self defense' if the shooter perceives imminent threat to...

Shelby Hurd of Chicago id as home invader shot dead by Joliet, Illinois mother who'd hid her baby in a closet moments before gunning down burglar who had only just been released from jail for a string of burglaries. An...

Corthoris Jamal Jenkins Miami man charged with attempted murder after chasing and shooting un-armed burglar, Xavier West. Case tests Florida's Stand Your Ground law.  A Miami, Florida man who allegedly chased an un-armed burglar and shot him several times as...

Adrein Green Sanford Stand your Ground case: Was a Florida homeowner justified to use lethal force at an unarmed black teen car burglar?  A Florida man has shot and killed a 17-year-old burglary suspect in a case that authorities say will...

Will the culpability of one shooter, Ronald Gasser rest on Lousiana's stand your ground laws? A question of self defense as NFL star Joe McKnight threatened another driver? In what is beginning to appear as a case of stand your...

George Zimmerman: Will he get a fair trial? George Zimmerman: May now have his case dropped. George Zimmerman is now on trial by default before his actual trial has begun. But is he guilty? Having surrendered himself to authorities yesterday (there was a...