At the center
of the case against Michael Dunn is a disappearing shotgun. The
middle-aged software developer claims 17-year-old Jordan Davis
threatened to kill him with it during an argument over loud music
at a Jacksonville, Florida, gas station in November 2012. But
police never found a gun, and no witness reported seeing one. It
seems at least one juror nevertheless found Dunn’s story plausible,
since his trial ended last week without a verdict on the
murder charge related to his shooting of Davis. But Jacob Sullum
says it is hard to see how that outcome can be attributed to
Florida’s “stand your ground” self-defense law, which has been
widely blamed for hanging the jury.
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