Florida Law Change

ANSWER TO QUESTION: When three people in Florida are involved in a fatal robbery which of the following statements is true? (1) The person who pulled the trigger is the only one charged with murder. (2) All three are equally guilty of the murder irrespective of whether they were involved in the death itself (3) Providing that there was no intent to kill on the part of those who did not do the killing then only the person who pulled the trigger is responsible for the death. The answer is (2) because under Florida law all participants in a fatal robbery are equally guilty of murder irrespective of whether or not they had anything to do with the person's death. This is a situation which many people, including myself, wish to change. In these cases people who never ad any intention to murder anyone but were associates of those who killed are serving life without parole sentences which gives them the same sentence as America's most dangerous inmates. The key word in such cases must ...

Florida law change campaign In Florida as in many other states of America, anyone who is a party to a fatal robbery is as equally guilty of committing the murder as the person who did the actual killing. It does not make any difference whether or not there was any intention to kill the victim. If you are part of the crowd  who were involved in the death of another person then you are guilty.  What kind of a sentence do you think a person who was a party to a murder receive? 10 years? 20 years? 30 years? Would you believe life without the possibility of parole. How can this be justified? If your son or daughter found themselves in this situation how would you feel? I am calling for a law change which will recognise that these folk who may have been a party to a person's death have actually committed manslaughter if even that. There needs to be a change of law which changes the definition of felony murder that significantly reduces the possibility of a defendant being unfairly ...