answer:The stand your ground law is being mis-identified as the problem. Zimmerman pursued the victim, at great length, with intent to confront. That’s not standing your ground, that’s chasing. The self-defense motion will not protect him on that. Where he got off on it in this case according to the Sanford police is that the two clearly broke into a fight, and in the course of that fight Zimmerman pulled his gun and killed the victim. As it stands with that evidence and no witnesses to corroborate or dispute Zimmerman’s account, they don’t really have anything they can do. He claims self defense, just as he could even in a state without the “Stand-your-ground” clause, and they can’t say otherwise yet. That said, I feel the federal review is going to prove that Zimmerman himself started the confrontation, and hence was not acting in self defense whatsoever. I am a Democrat, a liberal, and strongly in favor of stand your ground laws.