Originally Posted By: the G-man
 Originally Posted By: Matter-eater Man

Chris Serino, the Sanford, Florida investigator, filed an affidavit on the night of crime saying he was unconvinced of Zimmerman’s account. However, the state attorney’s office Norman Wolfinger told Serino not to press charges against Zimmerman after he said there wasn’t enough evidence against him.


Lack of evidence would seem to be a different legal impediment than the "stand your ground law." If so, this tends to contradict, rather than bolster, your theory that "stand your ground" is somehow responsible.

In order to charge someone with a crime, there needs to be sufficient evidence to establish probable cause. The fact that a police officer does or does not believe a suspect may not, by itself, be probable cause.

Unless and until there is probable cause to charge someone, the question of justification would not be reached.


The evidence in part would be the dead kid with a bag of skittles. Maybe there's more to the story but that alone seems to be enough to justify a manslaughter charge. As noted previously police in this case cited the stand your ground law (signed by Jeb Bush) as the reason for Zimmerman not being arrested.

Fair play!