Stand your ground laws...

[CaptainHaplo]

Originally Posted by garren

This way she only does 3 to 10 years in prison and can eventually come out and start a new life for herself. If she wants to be defiant and plead not guilty and make the state fight the case then the prosecution is going to go for the kill and nail her on a 2nd degree murder as the major charge and manslaughter as the minor charge (up to the jury to decide) without leniency which will earn her at least 20 years to life in prison. That would be foolish on her part when she could maybe get away with only having to do 3 to 10 instead.

She has a witness that says he went after her with a knife to start the whole thing. You can't tell from the video what is being said or what he has in his other hand.

No jury of 6 (usually its 12 in a felony case - the TMvGZ case surprised me with only 6) or 12 is going to convict when she pleads he propositioned her for sex, she turned him down, he pulled a knife and so she shot him in the foot, he swung and she shot again. Not when she has a witness on the knife and the initial unwanted sexual advances.