[net-gold] CRIME AND CRIMINALS: MURDER HOMICIDE : GUNS AND GUN CONTROL : ORGANIZATIONS: NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION, AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL (ALEC) : UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY : UNITED STATES: STATES: FLORIDA : LAW CASES: Michael Dunn's Sick License to Kill: The Hot-Blooded Murder of Jordan Davis and Florida's Perverted Justice
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- Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 07:38:02 -0500 (EST)
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CRIME AND CRIMINALS: MURDER HOMICIDE :
GUNS AND GUN CONTROL :
ORGANIZATIONS: NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION,
AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL (ALEC) :
UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY :
UNITED STATES: STATES: FLORIDA :
LAW CASES:
Michael Dunn's Sick License to Kill: The Hot-Blooded Murder of Jordan
Davis and Florida's Perverted Justice
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Michael Dunn's Sick License to Kill: The Hot-Blooded Murder of Jordan
Davis and Florida's Perverted Justice
Dunn created the confrontation, then made it deadly. Under Florida's
insane laws, the prosecution was still limited
Paul Campos
Salon
http://www.salon.com/2014/02/16/michael_dunns_sick_license_to_kill_
hot_blooded_murder_of_jordan_davis_and_floridas_perverted_justice/
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/l22of57
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The failure to convict Michael Dunn for shooting Jordan Davis to death in
the course of an argument over whether the 17-year-old and his friends
were playing their car stereo too loudly illustrates that, as a practical
matter, hot-blooded murder is often perfectly legal under Florida law and
that of many other states as well.
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Criticisms of the jury fail to appreciate that the prosecution was faced
with an almost impossible legal burden in this case, and only Dunns
decision to fire three more shots at a fleeing vehicle (after he had
already emptied seven of the bullets in the guns clip when killing Davis)
kept him from escaping any punishment at all.
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But because this is America, Dunn has a trump card: the nine-millimeter
handgun in his glove compartment, with 10 bullets in the clip, which he
has every legal right to bring to the confrontation he chose to start.
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And because this is America, the fact that Dunn is white and the teenage
boys are black black boys playing loud thug music, to use Dunns
description makes it seem reasonable to him that the confrontation he
started is about to escalate to a point where he will suffer great bodily
harm. (In America, being a black teenage male playing loud black music in
an SUV in a convenience store parking lot on a Friday night makes you a
fearsome figure to a middle-aged white man like Dunn).
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In sum, under the laws of the state of Florida, it was always going to be
extremely difficult for the prosecution to prove beyond a reasonable doubt
that Dunn wasnt in reasonable fear of suffering great bodily harm. And if
the prosecution couldnt prove that, this means Dunn had the legal right to
choose to kill a teenage boy to stand his ground rather than to retreat
from the confrontation Dunn started, even if retreat was a perfectly
viable option (which to all appearances it was).
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As a practical matter, Floridas laws give people like Dunn a license to
kill anyone they are reasonably afraid of. This means that, since the
prosecution could not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Jordan Davis
was not guilty of the crime of being a black teenage boy playing loud
music in a convenience store parking lot on a Friday night, Davis murder
will, at least for now, go unpunished.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jwne@xxxxxxxxxx
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