Stand Your Ground: Not Guilty to the Charge of Murder in the Second Degree
Ferrer Shane attorney Diana Gonzalez wins homicide acquittal for client.

MIAMI, FL, December 06, 2011 /24-7PressRelease/ -- You may think that the police will take you at your word if you kill someone in self-defense. Unfortunately, that rarely happens. The police will investigate. Charges against you might be filed. Whether or not that happens will depend on the facts of the case.

Our client, for example, gave a full confession to the police, believing that he had justifiably acted in self-defense, but still he was charged with murder in the second degree.

And he spent more than two years behind bars leading up to trial.

No Such Thing as an Impossible Case
Diana Gonzalez, Esq., a Miami criminal defense attorney with Ferrer Shane, won an incredible victory on Oct. 28 when the jury handed down its verdict: Not Guilty.

The stakes were high: He faced life in prison (with a 25-year mandatory minimum sentence because he protected himself with a firearm).

It would have been easy to arrange a plea bargain that would have allowed for a reduced sentence; instead, Ms. Gonzalez and her client persevered during a grueling jury trial that lasted two weeks.

Plenty of Reasonable Doubt
There were more than 10 different issues in the case, including the Stand Your Ground law, in which Ms. Gonzalez successfully demonstrated to the jury three things:

1. The prosecution's witnesses were known liars
2. The victim had a reputation for violence
3. The victim's family threatened physical harm to prosecution and defense witnesses

On top of that, there was a lack of forensic evidence linking our client to the crime, which gave the jury plenty of reasonable doubt.

As Ms. Gonzalez says, "There's no such thing as an impossible case."

Now, after more than two years behind bars, our client sleeps at home in his own bed, rather than in a jail cell.

Congratulations to Ms. Gonzalez and Ferrer Shane for the victory.

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