Hey folks,
I just wanted to drop a note to let you know I'm covering the George Zimmerman trial down in Florida for one of the internet's largest legal blogs, Legal Insurrection.
Some of you may know me as a lawyer with a practice specializing in the law of self defense, others as that guy...
I recently came across a 2011 self defense case in which the prosecution, the defense, and the judge all got the law completely backwards on the reading of a brief and rather straightforward self defense statute.
The result was that the defendant, who might well have been acquitted on the...
I realize the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin case is in Florida, and this (obviously) is a Maryland forum, but I've seen a tsunami of headlines by the mainstream media this past week about how George Zimmerman has allegedly waived his right to a pre-trial "Stand-Your-Ground" hearing, and...