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welcome back to the program it's great to have you with us today here's a
really interesting defense that is being
I used in a Labor Day cookout
killing that took place this is how to draw story there's a
lawyers for Florida man this week who are actually citing George W Bush's
preemptive war in Iraq
and the Bush Doctrine as a defense after their client
killed two neighbors and attempted to kill a third one
on Labor Day Florida Today reported about this
and attorneys for William Woodward filed a motion asking for charges against him
to be dropped
under Florida's Stand Your Ground law which says gun owners as we know
don't have a duty to retreat when they're facing and imminent danger
now the question is eminences the subjective a lot of debate as you and i
have talked about many times Lewis and according to officials in Titusville
Woodward actually snuck up on his neighbors while they were having a Labor
Day barbecue
police responding to the scene found that Gary Lee Hembree
Roger picky or and Bruce Timothy had all been shot
Ambrian pick your were later pronounced dead Blake survive the even though he
I am I had been hit 11 times
and in their motion woodward's attorneys claim that the victims had called him
names
and threatened to quote get him now think about this Louis we talk about
stand your ground
they had called him names and threatened to get him
but in order to shoo them he had
to sneak up on a different backyard that certainly doesn't appear to be an
imminent threat to me but apparently the law says that it could also include
something that is likely to occur in the future at least according to his
attorneys
here's where it gets really weird the court document filed by the defense
cites the Bush Doctrine which is the foreign policy principle that was used
by George W Bush
to justify going into Iraq %uh and embraces
preventive a preemptive war so basically his attorneys are saying in the same way
that George W Bush when into iraq
preemptively our client mister woodward
was right to preemptively because he had been told that they were going to get
him and they called him names
sneak into someone else's backyard and try to kill three people successfully
succeeding in killing to love them
is the defense making a complete mockery of the legal system here
it seems like it I i cant think
love I can't imagine this works I mean it seems like
stand your ground could still technically work but the Bush Doctrine
that seems a little
a little far-fetched we might as well just give everybody guns and let the
chaos ensue I mean if this is a legitimate defense than I i cant even
imagine what the next layer this thing is going to be
right at that a judge here is is going to
be well I should say the verdict series definitely
going to set a precedent I hope it's one that that is
I don't know realistic and legitimate