Stand Your Ground laws became popular in America after the Florida Legislature passed its version in 2005. The language explicitly removed the “duty to retreat ...
(Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP) (Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images) (YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images) Georgia’s stand-your-ground law law shapes how claims of self-defense are ...
Senior Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University I’m a historian who has studied the roots of stand your ground laws. I published a book on the subject in 2017. My ...
When Ajike “AJ” Owens went to Susan Lorincz’s door on June 2, 2023, the confrontation was one in a series of years-long disagreements between the two neighbors. Lorincz, 58 at the time, and Owens, 35, ...
Georgia does not have a single statute titled “Stand Your Ground.” These three statutes set the rules courts use when deciding whether a person’s use of force was justified. This section of the ...