FL: SYG Law Updated and the hysteria from at least one Constitutional Illiterate

Seriously, how can you be this illiterate about our laws and legal system. The FL change makes the state have to follow the "innocent until proven guilty" or at least "innocent until enough evidence to indict" standard is followed in SYG cases.

One commentator (who is a retired attorney) writes this though:

"Already weighted heavily in favor of trigger-happy shooters (freed of any duty to retreat), new changes to the law will not only increase shootings but discourage legitimate prosecutions.

Previously, shooters charged with a crime - bear in mind, many acts of self-defense never result in criminal charges - could obtain immunity at a pretrial hearing if they were able to show, by a "preponderance of the evidence" (the lowest evidentiary standard), that the shooting was justified.

Now, that's been turned upside down. Bent on giving shooters an even better shot at immunity, lawmakers have mandated that the government, in pretrial hearings, must demonstrate the exact opposite; namely, that defendant's self-defense claim is totally meritless. And, they must do so pursuant to a decidedly higher evidentiary standard ("clear and convincing evidence")."
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"If this revised law, as anticipated, results in a substantial spike in stand your ground cases, allowing more miscreants (and vigilante types) to be shielded from prosecution - again, not to be confused with citizens having legitimate self-defense claims (who are rarely charged) - it's not going too far to say that Florida lawmakers will have real blood on their hands. I hope I'm way off base, but the history of this misguided, ill-conceived law suggests otherwise."

http://www.gainesville.com/opinion/20170629/carl-ramey-on-guard-against-stand-your-ground