May you please Help me in putting my references and citations in APA format. This is my report from the spring 2016 semester. My professor informed me it could easily be a B paper if my references a

May you please Help me in putting my references and citations in APA format. This is my report from the spring 2016 semester. My professor informed me it could easily be a B paper if my references and citations were in APA format.

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Analysis of a criminal defense
CCJ 3024
Spring 2016
Essay 2: ANALYSIS OF THE CRIMINAL DEFENSE
Name: Gina I. Medina
Due Date: March 20, 2016
In reading the scenario, my argument is that the male was the aggressor and was wrong
for getting in the intoxicated woman’s face as well as punching her in the gut.
“A person
verbally threatened by another is not justified in striking the other party with his fist.”
[Lar14]
When the intoxicated woman insulted his girlfriend, she posed no imminent danger, nor is an
insult in any way a threat. By the male’s actions in attempting to make the intoxicated woman
apologize for insulting his girlfriend, caused her to retreat so she was not within his arms reach.
She actually backed up a few steps to retrieve her space. By her doing this, shows she feared the
man of doing her harm.
In defending herself, she took out her nail file from her purse.
According to text book page 147, the key provisions of Florida’s law, number three (3) states that
“A person who is not engaged in unlawful activity and who is attacked in any other place where
he or she has a right to be has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground and
meet force with force, including deadly force if he or she believes it is necessary to do so to
prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another to prevent the commission of
a forcible felony.” [Lar14]
In other words, if he felt as though harm or death was imminent, why would he move
close enough for the intoxicated woman to stab him with a nail file? Why not just leave? Instead,
he took the chance and stepped toward her and hit her in the gut.
He gave her a motive because
he assaulted her and opportunity to stab him with her nail file. “To establish self-defense, the
defendant must prove that s/he acted in a reasonable belief that s/he was in imminent danger of
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death or harm and had no reasonable means of escape from the assailant.”[Lar14] He could have
exited the club with no incident. He did not act in self-defense because he violated the
intoxicated woman’s space and although she said insulting things about his girlfriend, she never
posed a physical threat until he got in her face and demanded that she apologize. Had he not got
in her face, she would not have felt the need to pull out the nail file to defend herself.
However, the stand-your-ground approach is more likely to escalate violence because
there are some people that are misinterpreting the stand your ground law and using it the wrong
way. Some people get bold and feel as though they are invincible and begin to use the stand your
ground law as a cover up for when they decide to act on impulse.
“In the State of Florida vs.
Michael Dunne case, Michael Dunne fired multiple shots into a vehicle killing Jordan Davis, a
seventeen-year-old teenager because he and some friends were listening to loud music in their
car, while at the gas station.
This man apparently felt that he can use the stand your ground
defense by claiming the boys were coming at him with a gun and he feared for his life. Police
found no firearm on or near the teens and witnesses said that Michael Dunne was the only one
that got out of the car.
He felt by making that accusation about the teens that he would be
protected by the stand your ground law and was comfortable enough to go and eat pizza with his
girlfriend.”
[http] Also, many people are not trained in shoot or don’t shoot tactics so it also
becomes a matter of negligence. “A Colorado Springs father fatally shot his teenage step-
daughter
, saying he thought she was a burglar.
This is one of several incidents in which a parent
has killed their own child after they mistook them for a burglar.” [Nic13]
Furthermore, “
The debate focused on the controversial “Stand Your Ground” (SYG) self-
defense law, which garnered national attention after the fatal shooting of Florida teenager
Trayvon Martin in February 2012. Twenty-two states now have some variation of SYG
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