(GunReports.com) — The attorney for the man who shot and killed unarmed Florida teenager Trayvon Martin said Monday he’ll seek to get the case dismissed using a traditional self-defense argument and not the state’s “stand your ground” statute, FoxNews.com reports.
Mark O’Mara, who is defending George Zimmerman against a second-degree murder charge in the fatal February shooting, said the traditional self-defense approach is appropriate because the facts suggest his client couldn’t retreat from a beating Martin was giving him.
Zimmerman’s attorneys had said last week that they would use Florida’s controversial “stand your ground” law, which allows people to use deadly force — rather than retreat — if they believe their lives are in danger.
“The facts don’t seem to support a `stand your ground’ defense,” O’Mara said.
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