Judge upholds 'Stand your ground' defense in teen's bus stop stabbing death

judge upholds 'Stand your ground' defense in teen's bus stop stabbing death

NAPLES — A 15-year-old who stabbed a classmate to death will not face murder charges.

A Collier judge has upheld the "Stand your ground" defense in the case of Jorge Saavedra, who stabbed Dylan Nuno to death last January at a Golden Gate Estates bus stop.

Dylan Nuno's mother, Kim Maxwell, called Collier Circuit Judge Lauren Brodie's decision "unbelievable."

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“This court concludes that the defendant was in a place where he had a right to be and was not acting unlawfully. He Had more than enough reason to believe he was in danger of death or great bodily harm,” the judge's ruling read. “Under current Florida law, the defendant had no duty to retreat... The defendant was under attack from the first punch to the back of his head until he stabbed Dylan Nuno.”

The order grants Saavedra, now 15, immunity from further criminal prosecution as well as from any eventual civil action regarding Nuno's homicide.

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