It is rather incredible to realize the three passengers were threatened with their lives, yet Jordan Davis was not murdered. He was not found murdered because of the wording in the Stand Your Ground Law. So, the moral to the story is, when pointing a gun as if attempting to commit murder, simply do it and get away with it.
February 17, 2014
by Rick Neale
...After deliberating for days, (click here) jurors deadlocked Saturday night on Dunn’s first-degree murder count, and the judge declared a mistrial. He fatally shot Jordan Davis, 17, during a November 2012 parking-lot dispute over loud rap music at a Jacksonville gasoline station.
However, the 47-year-old South Patrick Shores computer programmer still faces at least 60 years in prison: Jurors convicted Dunn on three counts of second-degree attempted murder for firing at Davis’ three teenaged companions inside their sport-utility vehicle.
“I know people say, ‘Well, he’s going to go to jail for the rest of his life.’ And that’s true. But the verdict itself is still troubling because it did not hold him accountable for intentionally killing the man who was killed,” said Lance deHaven-Smith, who is a former president of the Florida Political Science Association....
February 17, 2014
by Rick Neale
...After deliberating for days, (click here) jurors deadlocked Saturday night on Dunn’s first-degree murder count, and the judge declared a mistrial. He fatally shot Jordan Davis, 17, during a November 2012 parking-lot dispute over loud rap music at a Jacksonville gasoline station.
However, the 47-year-old South Patrick Shores computer programmer still faces at least 60 years in prison: Jurors convicted Dunn on three counts of second-degree attempted murder for firing at Davis’ three teenaged companions inside their sport-utility vehicle.
“I know people say, ‘Well, he’s going to go to jail for the rest of his life.’ And that’s true. But the verdict itself is still troubling because it did not hold him accountable for intentionally killing the man who was killed,” said Lance deHaven-Smith, who is a former president of the Florida Political Science Association....
