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JACKSONVILLE, FLA. -- A judge will rule next month on whether a local marine will stand trial for murder. Callie Adams is trying to use the stand your ground law to get immunity from prosecution.

She is accused of shooting her husband, Rodney Adams, outside a nightclub in 2011. Callie Adams claimed she only fired after her husband choked her and repeated punched her.

Prosecutors introduced the police interview and 911 calls from the night of the shooting in an attempt to show she did not fear for her life.

I was just trying to get him to stop hitting me, Adams told detectives in the video.

But Adams also testified he threatened to kill both of them during the altercation. A former JSO detective testified that Rodney Adams began the altercation.

Defense attorneys tried to use relatives and expert witnesses to establish that Rodney Adams had a history of abusing Callie Adams.

If she didn't have the prior history of being abused, then there would really be no basis for my testimony, said Dr. Harry Krop, a forensic psychologist based in Gainesville. But based on what's been reported and the reports of others, she has a pretty severe abuse history.

But late in the day, the prosecution called Rodney Adams mother to the stand. She initially was going to testify for the defense but has since changed her mind.

I would not lie for Rodney, but I would not lie for Callie either, said Loretta Adams.

Loretta Adams testified that the relationship between her son and daughter-in-law was combative and that she saw bruises and cuts on both.

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Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal on Wednesday signed into law a far-reaching bill expanding gun owners rights, marking a high-profile win for the gun-rights movement.

Called the Safe Carry Protection Act, the law eliminates a host of restrictions on Georgians ability to carry guns in public and allows people licensed to carry weapons outside the home to bring them into some bars and many state- and local-government buildings.

The law also largely eliminates criminal penalties for people found with guns at airport security checkpoints and removes gun-permitting restrictions for anyone who has pleaded no contest to a criminal charge.

The measure also extends the states stand your ground law to convicted felons. Such laws generally grant people more leeway to attack and even kill someone who is threatening them.

The laws passage and signing by Mr. Deal, a Republican, represent the latest victory for the gun-rights movement following the 2012 massacre in Newtown, Conn., that claimed the lives of 20 children and six others. Click here to read the full story.

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MANHATTAN A firm belief in God and in working for public dialogue on racial profiling and senseless gun violence helped Sybrina Fulton move forward following the death of her son, Trayvon Martin.

That was part of Fultons message to hundreds of students Tuesday evening at the K-State Student Union in Manhattan.

Fulton said in no uncertain terms her sons death was needless, and Americans of all races and ethnicities need to have difficult conversations about such topics as gun violence and preconceptions about others based on the color of their skin.

What happened to Trayvon? Trayvon went to the store, Fulton said, to get a drink and candy. Nothing more, nothing less. I'm sure a lot of you walk to the store to get a drink and candy.

As an African-American, I know that racial profiling still exists, she said. It's a very uncomfortable subject.

Fultons son was 17 when he was killed in a 2012 shooting in Florida that sparked an intense national debate over whether George Zimmerman, 28, had pursued Martin and killed him for racially motivated reasons, or whether Zimmerman had defended himself from an attack.

Zimmerman was acquitted at trial in 2013.

The national debate focused on whether the incident reflected racism and racial profiling, as well as on Floridas Stand Your Ground law.

This law does not benefit anyone, Fulton said of the law that her state passed in 2005. It gives people a right to shoot and kill and ask questions later.

Fulton urged students to educate themselves about Kansas own Stand Your Ground law. But she also said, in response to a students question, she didnt oppose gun ownership.

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The Tampa Bay Times used published newspaper reports, court records and documents obtained from prosecutors and defense attorneys to compile a partial list of self-defense cases in Florida since 2005. Although this list likely contains most fatalities in which "stand your ground" was invoked, it does not include scores of less serious cases from around the state.

Not all self-defense cases were considered. The Times included 118 cases in which a stand your ground immunity hearing before a judge was requested. In the majority of the remaining cases, a law enforcement official, prosecutor or defense attorney invoked the law.

The Times also included 29 cases where circumstances appeared to reflect the Legislatures intent when it passed the law. For example, if a defendant claiming self-defense could have retreated from a confrontation but chose not to, the case was classified as stand your ground.

Home invasion robberies and other cases that clearly would have been self-defense under previous law were not included unless a stand your ground immunity motion was filed. If a case occurred on the defendants property but outside the home, it was included if the defendant could have retreated inside the home.

The race and ethnicity of victims and defendants were compiled from various sources, including police reports and drivers license records. Police and sheriffs offices often consider Hispanics as an ethnic group and record their race as white or black. As a result, some Hispanics may not be counted in their race category in the Times calculations.

Some cases may have changed significantly since the original media reports as a result of further investigation or court events. As a result, some summaries may be incomplete or contain outdated information.

Some cases are still pending and no determination of guilt has been made. If you have information about any factual errors in a summary, or about further developments in a case, please fill out our case submission form.

Times investigations editor Chris Davis did an interview explaining the investigation on WFLA. Listen here.

Page last updated: Aug. 13, 2013

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