Iowa Supreme Court says stand-your-ground law has limits

An Iowa law allowing people to use lethal force to defend themselves doesn’t apply to defendants who engaged in criminal activity prior to the perceived threat, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday. Baltazar maintains he feared Mercado had a weapon and was acting in self-defense under the state’s stand-your-ground law. The Court of Appeals faulted Baltazar’s trial court for giving a faulty jury instruction in his case that did not abide by the state’s new stand-your-ground law, which was enacted 27 days before the killing.

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