James Patrick Wonder, Killer Of Federal Agent Donald Pettit, Gets Stand Your Ground Hearing

[SecularMotion]

A federal agent is gunned down in a West Broward parking lot. Heavily armed officers swarm the area. Was it a targeted killing? Who pulled the trigger?

After a daylong, highly visible manhunt, police arrested a 65-year-old dialysis patient from Miramar.

And what first appeared to be cold-blooded murder has become a case of self-defense -- and the latest attempt to justify a killing under Florida's controversial Stand Your Ground law.

James Patrick Wonder, now 69, will ask a Broward judge this week to dismiss his case in a hearing that could last up to 10 days. He will argue the killing was done in self-defense, stemming from a road rage incident.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/27/stand-your-ground-hearing_n_2031537.html

[glacierbay]

1. I'm kinda on the fence about this

if what Wonder says is true, than maybe the SYG defense will prevail, however his actions after the fact is what disturbs me, it could be a case of panic and not knowing what to do, or something more sinister.
I'll wait for the testimony and the judge's decision on whether the SYG argument is applicable.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

2. It is good to see that the process if being followed, even in the shooting of an LEO

Post event behavior of the shooter is highly questionable.

[ileus]

3. He should have called the cops right then and there.

He may have had a good SYG case.