I gather from the professor's writing that Wisconsin does not have a stand-your-ground law. That's what I thought as well, yet MSNBC reports (see map on Lawrence O'Donnell show site) that Wisconsin does have a stand-your-ground law, and so does the Progressive magazine.
I hope that this is confusion with the castle-doctrine law in Wisconsin, which is worrisome enough.
Here's O'Meara's memo from last fall on our own very special castle doctrine (PDF).
ReplyDeleteI gather from the professor's writing that Wisconsin does not have a stand-your-ground law. That's what I thought as well, yet MSNBC reports (see map on Lawrence O'Donnell show site) that Wisconsin does have a stand-your-ground law, and so does the Progressive magazine.
ReplyDeleteI hope that this is confusion with the castle-doctrine law in Wisconsin, which is worrisome enough.