Beyond Stand Your Ground

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🗓️ 25 April 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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“Stand Your Ground” laws have expanded across the country over the past 20 years, allowing people to use deadly force even when they could safely retreat from a perceived threat. But when someone shoots a person standing on their porch, or as they turn around in a driveway, or in a crowd, the claim that these laws exist for self-defense doesn’t seem to wash. Guest: Tamara Lave, professor of criminal law at the University of Miami and a former public defender. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Amicus—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:41.0	I've been thinking a lot about who's got the right to defend themselves in this country,
0:51.2	especially over the last couple of weeks.
0:53.8	When I heard about what happened in rural Hebron, New York, where Kaelin Gillis got killed
0:59.4	after turning down the wrong driveway.
1:01.6	An investigator say monahan fired two shots from his front porch and one bullet killed
1:07.2	Gillis.
1:08.2	A few days before that, Ralph Yarl, a 16-year-old in Kansas City, Missouri, was injured after
1:14.7	he showed up at the wrong doorstep to pick up his little brothers.
1:18.5	Lisa and her lester fired two shots at 16-year-old Ralph Yarl twice through his glass door.
1:26.2	Lester claims he thought the teen was attempting to rob his home.
1:30.2	The teen was...
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