Disaster Unaverted: Reconciling the Desire for a Safe and Secure State with the Grim Realities of Stand Your Ground
Abstract
Professor Megale writes this Article as a follow-up to her 2010 article discussing Florida's Stand Your Ground laws, where she predicted incidents much like the death of Trayvon Martin. This Article takes her predictions a step further and discusses the changes in self-defense norms in the United States. The Article uses the Zimmerman case as a vehicle to discuss the culture-law-culture cycles that gave rise to changes in the law and essentially set the stage for homicides like Trayvon Martin. The Article also calls for legislative change and a return to the legal structure of affirmative defense.
This paper has been withdrawn.