It sounded clear to me on the CNN story, but would I have heard the same thing if I hadn't had the words in my mind beforehand? Here at Mudcat our familiarity with Mondegreens and the difficulty of transcribing text from recordings should make us cautious on that front. In that example it disturbs me that we're listening to that 1.6 seconds of sound out of its context.

Today's news: the Sanford police chief has temporarily stepped down (Miami Herald).

Wow - also on the home page of the Miami Herald, "a Miami-Dade judge on Wednesday cited the law in tossing out the case of a man who chased down a suspected burglar and stabbed him to death." link

It seems seriously screwed up to me that the Stand Your Ground law is interpreted as precluding a jury trial. The police or a judge can toss out any charges preemptively.

Florida legislators who wrote the law say they did not intend that it work that way. Looks like they'd best get busy re-writing it.

~ Becky in Long Beach