Two years after lawmakers approved a controversial change to the state’s “stand your ground” self-defense law, the Florida Supreme Court heard arguments about whether the change should apply to a woman charged in a shooting incident outside a Miami-Dade County nightclub.

The defendant, Tashara Love, was charged in 2015, but her case remained pending when lawmakers changed the “stand your ground” law in 2017. The issue before the Supreme Court centers on whether the revised law should apply to Love’s case, and potentially other cases that began before 2017.

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