Self-Defense Immunity: A Real World WIN for a Defender!

Just this past Friday (Jan. 28) a lawyer friend of mine sent me a self-defense immunity WIN from Florida. Specifically, the court in that case had conducted a self-defense immunity hearing for a defendant facing 20 years in prison.  After the immunity hearing, the court granted the defendant immunity from prosecution and civil suit under Florida's self-defense immunity law. So, instead of a lengthy and costly criminal prosecution, and the prospects of a conviction and 20 years in prison, this defendant got to simply go home, free of legal and civil liability, and free from any politically motivated prosecution.I thought this case would be a great example to illustrate how self-defense immunity works in the real world, by stepping through the really excellent "Order to Dismiss" drafted by the court that granted this immunity.