Zimmerman not guilty.

[Lemur]

Indeed, I'd call it as much a "study" as when you or I go on Google and pull data from the FBI's website. I guess the difference is that he made a bar graph.

And if you had back-tracked from the article, you would have found the earlier source here.

I'm glad you've moved from dismissing the article because it does not adhere to your particular interpretation of SYG law and its relevance to the Zimmerman case on to dismissing the article because it doesn't address the things you find interesting.

One of the discussion-worthy things about the case is the use of self-defense in a low-evidence situation. (Despite many proclamations people have made about what did and did not happen, the truth of the matter is that most of what happened with Martin and Zimmerman is unproveable.) Stand Your Ground was clearly a factor on everyone's—most importantly the jury's—mind. Whether or not a duty to retreat was a factor depends entirely on how the fight between Martin and Zimmerman was initiated, and nobody can state with any certainty how that played out.

So your assertion that SYG is irrelevant depends entirely on accepting Zimemrman's version of events. Which may or may not be 100% accurate.