MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A Broward County judge found three former Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies involved in a 2019 fatal shootout in Miramar were immune from prosecution under Florida\u2019s \u201cstand your ground\u201d law. <\/p>\n
Broward County Circuit Judge Ernest Kollra dismissed the manslaughter cases against Richard Santiesteban, Leslie Lee, and Rodolfo Mirabal. <\/p>\n
In his orders, Kollra wrote he found \u201cthe facts and testimony support the application of immunity under Florida\u2019s \u2018Stand Your Ground\u2019 law\u201d for their actions on Dec. 5, 2019, in Miramar.<\/p>\n
The Broward State Attorney\u2019s Office released a statement on Monday, saying that the plan was to appeal the three rulings.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is our belief that Stand Your Ground immunity does not apply in matters involving innocent bystanders, like Frank Ordonez and Richard Cutshaw, who presented no danger to officers,\u201d prosecutors wrote. \u201cIn this incident, two innocent men were killed, and the lives of numerous other innocent bystanders were endangered.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jose Mateo, a former M-DSO deputy who was also involved in the shootout, was also cleared of the charges late last year. <\/p>\n
Ordonez, 27, was working as a UPS driver when Lamar Alexander and Ronnie Jerome Hill, two fleeing felons involved in the armed burglary of Regens Jewelry in Coral Gables, took him hostage.<\/p>\n
Alexander and Hill hijacked the UPS truck Ordonez had been assigned to drive and fled from police from Miami-Dade County to Broward County. <\/p>\n
Rush-hour traffic along Miramar Parkway forced a standoff and a shooting. <\/p>\n
Cutshaw, an innocent bystander, was driving home from work when he stopped at a red light and was killed in the hail of gunfire. Alexander and Hill also died. <\/p>\n
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