Popmartijn
Blue Crack Supplier
nbcrusader said:Murder involves premeditation (an intent) to kill.
Self-defense requires a showing by the defendant that the average reasonable person in the same situation would fear imminent threat of physical harm.
And who can collaborate/contradict the evidence as showed by the defendant. Not the person who has been killed. So it's only the word of the defendant. What he or she might suggest as being self-defense could thus easily be murder.
There is substantial law supporting the self-defense doctrine and the Florida law only expands the doctrine to (i) people in public who are given no opportunity to retreat or (ii) people confronted in their own home when faced with physical harm.
If you read that article posted by Dreadsox you see that's not the case. What you're saying was the old situation. Now, the criteria are even more lax.