Overview
ch 18. please respond to Perla with 150. words
The 'stand your ground' statute happens or is applicable whenever a person is encountered with an aggressor that they believe is trying to attack them or another person. This individual is then faced with two options, to retreat or to stand their ground to defend themselves or others. This is also known as 'self-defense,' but it does not mean that deadly force is to be used immediately since it is unnecessary, and only the proportional amount of force should be used depending on the situation. A castle or sanctuary can mean the same thing, a home or place to retreat to from the attack, but it doesn't specify where else could be considered sanctuary if the attack if coming from inside the home.
A hypothetical situation of this, is if a mother is sitting down at a bus stop and alongside her she has her baby in a stroller. Then another woman comes up to her and asks questions about the baby, very innocent questions about how old they are is, what's their name, and how they were a mother as well. Then right when the woman's bus arrived, she took the handle of the stroller and started walking towards the bus with the mothers baby, almost immediately the mother reacted by grabbing the handle as well and shoving the other woman onto the floor. The woman who was shoved onto the floor started crying and trying to say that the mother was actually the one who stole the baby and was assaulted, but other people who were waiting by the bus contested otherwise saying it was just self defense.
I think in this situation it can be obvious to say that the mother was using the proportional amount of force that was appropriate in this situation, but if there had been no witnesses to the situation or cameras that are typically at most bus stops, a passerby could've thought the mother was the perpetrator in this situation rather than the other way around. So imagine if the mother had used deadly force against the woman, without witnesses or cameras, the outcome could've been incredibly messy and not in the favor of the mother.