MSNBC News discusses Florida's Stand Your Ground with Kendall Coffey
Channel: Kendall Coffey
Date: 11/07/2014

Kendall Coffey, former U.S. State Attorney, discusses the Stand Your Ground Law and the changes that should be considered when evaluating the law. 

Partial transcript:
Kendall Coffey: Absolutely it does, that is why the state prosecutors association has opposed Stand Your Ground laws which all too many cases become a license to kill, an invitation to stand and shoot.  Now, at least there is a hearing today.  Do we expect any possibility that the House is going to recommend appealing the law? No.  But there can be changes made. And saying, not changing one darn comma, is a slogan. It isn't a response to a serious problem, and experience has told us that this law has gone far beyond what it was originally intended in 2005.

Interviewer: And Kendall, I can't stress enough, you are a former federal prosecutor.  What do you believe you see as flaws in this law that others, particularly those with the power to do something here with legislation, are not seeing?

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