Winning a Stand Your Ground self-defense claim, a Palm Beach County felon no longer will be prosecuted for the 2006 fatal shootings of two young men outside a keg party.
Palm Beach County Judge Barry Cohen on May 20 dismissed two manslaughter charges against John Thomas Dorsey, 28, denying prosecutors' bid to put him on trial for a third time for the deaths of Stephen Beau Bunting, 20, and John Lott, 19.
"Florida law does not require a citizen to wait until suffering great bodily injury before resorting to deadly force since the purpose is to prevent such harm," Cohen wrote in his ruling for the man originally sentenced in 2009 to life in prison for the killings.