South Carolina Prosecutors Say Stand Your Ground Doesn’t Apply To Victims Of Domestic Violence

[KamaAina]

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/10/14/3579407/south-carolina-prosecutors-say-stand-your-ground-doesnt-apply-to-victims-of-domestic-violence/

South Carolina is one of more than 20 states that has passed an expansive Stand Your Ground law authorizing individuals to use deadly force in self-defense. The law has been used to protect a man who killed an innocent bystander while pointing his gun at several teens he called “women thugs.” But prosecutors in Charleston are drawing the line at domestic violence.

In the cases of women who claim they feared for their lives when confronted with violent intimate abusers, prosecutors say the Stand Your Ground law shouldn’t apply.

“(The Legislature’s) intent … was to provide law-abiding citizens greater protections from external threats in the form of intruders and attackers,” prosecutor Culver Kidd told the Post and Courier. “We believe that applying the statute so that its reach into our homes and personal relationships is inconsistent with (its) wording and intent.”...

The Post and Courier, which originally reported prosecutors’ position, has been doing a series on domestic violence over the past few months, in which it found that women are dying at a rate of one every 12 days from domestic abuse in South Carolina, a state “awash in guns, saddled with ineffective laws and lacking enough shelters for the battered … a state where the deck is stacked against women trapped in the cycle of abuse.” More than 70 percent of those who kill their spouse had “multiple prior arrests on those charges” and the majority spent just days in jail.

"Too small to be a country, too large to be an insane asylum."

[annabanana]

1. .. the one population that might have a legitimate need...

great

[procon]

2. So a woman does not have a right for self protection at home

but she does someplace else outside the home... is that how this works??? All these Stand Your Ground laws make a mockery of the justice system, but having a double stand for women -- like everything else -- denies her the same rights a men and makes her a second class citizen at the mercy of not only her SO but the Neanderthal legal system in SC.

[pansypoo53219]

3. how ironic. boy, USA surely is the bestest country for women, what war on women?

talibornagains.