There's 'no comparison' to Trayvon Martin, his lawyer says
(NEWSER) – The man accused of killing an unarmed teenafter an argument over loud music in a parking lot may invoke Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law, his lawyer says. But "there are no comparisons to the Trayvon Martinsituation," where the same defense was used, she adds, according to CNN. Michael Dunn is "not a vigilante," and he feels "devastated and horrified" by the death of Jordan Davis, 17, she says. She claims Dunn, 45—who had earlier attended his son's wedding and had stopped for a bottle of wine before going back to his hotel with his girlfriend—was defending himself because he heard "epithets that were extraordinarily threatening to him" from the car and saw a shotgun; police say no gun was found in the car, but Dunn's lawyer says "they may not have looked hard enough," WJXT reports.
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