Florida lawmakers will review "Stand Your Ground" law Republican leadership in the state legislature announced that it will hold hearings on the law this fall

Florida lawmakers have agreed to hold hearings this fall to review the state's "Stand Your Ground" law, which has come under intense scrutiny since George Zimmerman was found not guilty in the shooting of Trayvon Martin.

"I have asked the chair of our Criminal Justice Subcommittee to hold a hearing this fall on 'Stand Your Ground,'" wrote Will Weatherford, the Republican leader of the Florida House of Representatives, in a column in the Tampa Tribune. "Our evaluation of its effectiveness should be guided by objective information, not by political expediency. Does the law keep the innocent safer? Is it being applied fairly? Are there ways we can make this law clearer and more understandable?"

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But, he added: "Demands for a special session to repeal the law disregard the very foundation of our representative democracy by presuming that a law passed by the majority of a constitutional body should be reversed by the objections of a few."

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