Current Florida law will remain in effect, requiring that a person claiming self-defense immunity bear the burden of proving self-defense by a preponderance of the evidence. That legal standard had been applied by the courts for several years, and then was explicitly affirmed by the Florida Supreme Court in a 5-2 decision this past July. That decision, Bretherick v. State, 170 So. 3d 766 (FL Supreme Court 2015), is embedded below.All of the procedures around the actual implementation of Florida’s self-defense immunity statute have necessarily been created by the courts, because the statute itself failed to set forth any such procedures.
Source: Self-defense Immunity | Stand-Your-Ground | Florida
Nobody said you were going to get 100% of what you wanted. Ours is the long game as it give the permanent solution.
Just remember next year is electoral, that is when the buttons are pushed.
Push hard.
Isn’t there also a bill worming its way through committee that does this same expansion?
I haven’t been keeping with it… gotta check Florida Carry (Sean is gonna kill me)
I’ve been trying to follow it. There’s three pro-gun bills and I lost track of where they are in the maze of committees and can’t remember which is which either.
Open Carry passed one committee and I think it has one more to go