Miami-Dade State Attorney: For Immediate Release: State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle's Statement On Stand Your Ground Ruling

Press release from Miami-Dade State Attorney:

August 27, 2021

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Miami, Fla. (August 27, 2021)

“Having always believed that Mark Bartlett’s actions on the Brickell Avenue bridge were a violation of Florida law and motivated by racial hostility, we now look forward to taking this case to trial.

Disproving the self-defense arguments of Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law can be a very difficult hurdle for prosecutors to overcome. Now that my prosecutors have done that, it is time to move this long-delayed case to trial.

I commend Assistant State Attorneys Jonathan Borst and Citra Joseph and Chief Assistant Kathleen Hoague for their hard work on this case recognizing that there is still much, much more to be done before this case is finally resolved.”

Katherine Fernandez RundleState Attorney###

This press release was produced by Miami-Dade State Attorney. The views expressed here are the author’s own.