COLUMBIA, SC — An armed intruder is making a "Stand Your Ground" argument in a murder trial, saying he shouldn't be prosecuted for shooting and killing the man whose home he broke into because it looked as though the man was about to shoot him first.
The state's 2006 "Stand Your Ground" law effectively allows people to claim "immunity from prosecution" when they have used deadly force to deal with and even kill people in various situations if they believed they were being threatened by them.
On Monday, before a jury had been seated in the trial of murder defendant Gregg Isaac, Columbia defense attorney Mark Schnee told Judge Clifton Newman that Isaac wanted immunity from prosecution in his 2005 shooting and killing of Antonio Corbitt.
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