How to Use stand your ground law in a Sentence

stand your ground law

noun
  • So, what are stand your ground laws?
    — Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Stand your ground and race While the language of stand your ground laws is race-neutral, their enforcement is not.
    — Caroline Light, The Conversation, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Currently, 38 states have Stand Your Ground laws.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 7 Dec. 2025
  • Shootings of people who mistakenly went to the wrong house have tested the limits of stand your ground laws in recent years.
    — ABC News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Eastwood, who has been a prosecutor for more than 25 years, said the case is complex due to the language of the state's stand your ground law.
    — Noe Padilla, IndyStar, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Stand Your Ground laws, which are now in place throughout much of the country, were expanding the scope of lethal self-defense outside the home.
    — Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2025
  • On the contrary, evidence shows that stand your ground laws lower the legal, moral and psychological costs of pulling the trigger.
    — Caroline Light, The Conversation, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Research shows that stand your ground laws increase homicide and exacerbate racial disparities.
    — Caroline Light, The Conversation, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Lorincz, who invoked Florida’s Stand Your Ground laws, stood trial last year.
    — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Last September, a judge dismissed the manslaughter charge against Mateo, ruling the state's stand your ground law applied in his case.
    — Joan Murray, CBS News, 2 Feb. 2026
  • According to a 2022 study, stand your ground laws were associated with an eight percent increase in monthly homicide rates in states that have them.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Missouri later expanded those protections further by formally adopting a stand your ground law in 2016.
    — Ben Wheeler updated May 10, Kansas City Star, 10 May 2026
  • In the past 20 years, nearly 30 states have followed Florida and passed their own stand your ground laws, according to FindLaw.
    — Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
  • However, research has shown that stand your ground laws not only increase rates of violence and homicides in states that implement them, but are disproportionately used against people of color.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
  • But in practice, stand your ground laws have blurred the line between self-defense and aggression by expanding legal immunity for some who claim self-defense and shifting the burden of proof to prosecutors.
    — Caroline Light, The Conversation, 17 Nov. 2025
  • The group also fights for legislative change, particularly in relation to Stand Your Ground laws, which Lorincz used in her defense.
    — Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The organization works to support families affected by racial and gun violence while also pushing for changes to policies like Stand Your Ground laws.
    — Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Oct. 2025
  • According to the Associated Press, during her trial, Lorincz's legal team tried to argue that her actions fell under Florida's stand your ground laws.
    — Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Owens was a Black mother shot by a white woman through a locked door, mirroring similar national cases where Black individuals were shot under stand your ground laws while doing things like jogging or ringing unfamiliar doorbells.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
  • As shared in the end of the documentary, Stand Your Ground laws have been linked to an 8% to 11% increase in homicide rates — equal to roughly 700 additional deaths annually.
    — Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Information shared during the press conference showed an increase in the number of criminal cases her office declined because of the state’s Stand Your Ground laws, which were enacted in 2016.
    — Ben Wheeler, Kansas City Star, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Plea deals in the 2024 Kansas City Chiefs rally shooting case have fueled debate over Missouri’s stand your ground law, with attorneys and legal scholars divided over how the statute affects murder prosecutions.
    — Ben Wheeler updated May 10, Kansas City Star, 10 May 2026
  • The film, in theaters October 10 and streaming October 17, examines how a seemingly minor neighborhood dispute in Florida spiraled into deadly violence, with police bodycam footage and interviews exploring the broader impact of Stand Your Ground laws.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025

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