From the PENNSYLVANIA INDEPENDENT:
The Florida stand-your-ground law may be preventing authorities from charging the man accused of shooting teenager Trayvon Martin.
But under the same circumstances in Pennsylvania, which has a similar law, charges would have been filed.
“The significant difference in Pennsylvania law is that (the alleged aggressor) would have had to display a deadly weapon to justify a person using deadly force,” said Richard Long, executive director of the Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association, which provides training and support to the state’s 67 district attorneys…
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