Judge clears Florida officer in shooting of UPS driver taken hostage citing “stand your ground”

Broward Circuit Judge Ernest Kollra ruled that Jose Mateo, who had been charged with manslaughter in the death of UPS driver Frank Ordonez, could not be prosecuted because Florida’s so-called “stand your ground” law justified the shooting, the South Florida SunSentinel reported. Ordonez, 27, had be...

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