Topic > The Causes and Effects of the Stand Your Ground Law - 708

The outcome of most cases when they go to court, the burden falls on the court to disprove self-defense and not really on the defendants to prove have acted legitimately. Numerous high profile cases have overpowered the notion that your basic law is less than flawless, if anything further reasons have been raised why that law needs to be re-evaluated and changed. An example of a bad law resistance case is the Zimmerman and Martin case in Florida, where Zimmerman, a neighborhood watchman, was told to stand down and he ended up killing him because he seemed suspicious and was found not guilty. An African American woman who was abused by her husband, shot in the air killing no one, was found guilty of shooting to protect herself, shows that there are many flaws in the basic laws that are not fair. Another case of standing up to Jodi Arias who was convicted of stabbing her boyfriend Travis Alexander, twenty-seven, slitting his throat and shooting him in the head, how does this law fit into this crime? How can anyone be allowed to claim such a defense, I think the lawyer should not be allowed to let clients use it