FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The public learned more Monday about why an officer is claiming “stand your ground” in a deadly shootout that took the lives of four people in Miramar in 2019. Suspended ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) - Broward County Circuit Judge Ernest Kollra heard testimonies for a sixth day as a former police officer fights charges stemming from a shootout that claimed the life of ...

The Boone County Prosecutor’s Office cites Indiana’s Stand Your Ground law and “unique circumstances” in the fatal shooting ...

The debate regarding controversial Stand Your Ground laws has once again hit a fever pitch following the release of The Perfect Neighbor. The Netflix documentary, which premiered in October 2025, ...

A Broward judge is allowing a "Stand Your Ground" hearing for one of four Miami-Dade officers charged in the death of a kidnapped UPS truck driver who was killed in a shootout in Miramar nearly six ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - In a case stemming from a man who killed a pitbull when he and his Chihuahua felt threatened, an appeals court ruled Wednesday that Florida’s “stand your ground” ...

MOVING INTO CENTRAL FLORIDA. COMING UP IN ORANGE COUNTY. JUDGE HAS DENIED A MOTION THAT WOULD HAVE ALLOWED A SANFORD MAN TO CLAIM SELF-DEFENSE UNDER FLORIDA’S STAND YOUR GROUND LAW, 47 YEAR OLD CURTIS ...

Florida was the first state to implement the stand-your-ground law in 2005, which allows people to use deadly or non-deadly force in self-defense. A local stand-your-ground case is happening right now ...

How many people have to die before we take a hard look at the stand-your-ground defense in Texas? How long before the message gets out that this will-nilly shooting of people on your property is a bad ...

Gun control advocates say states need to rethink the laws. "Stand your ground laws," have proliferated around the country after they were first introduced in Florida in 2005, with proponents ...

Florida was the first state to pass the contentious law in 2005 and it has since expanded Christopher Rudolph is a contributing writer for PEOPLE. He previously covered entertainment at The Advocate, ...