A shooting in which a Liberty County homeowner shot and killed a robber as well as Tuesday night's release of a Tallahassee man accused of murder, are drawing renewed attention to Florida's "stand your ground" law.

There's still plenty of debate about whether that self defense provision should extend from the home into the street.

Jimmy Hair walked out of the Leon County Jail Tuesday night into the arms of his wife and little boy.

His murder arrest may be the first to be overturned on appeal, citing Florida's "stand your ground law."

"He was legally entitled to defend himself, legally entitled to an immunity claim. There was no need for him to sort of "prove" himself to a jury," said Hair's attorney, John Leace. "It's, if not the first, one of the first where a court has granted immunity without the necessity of a jury trial," he said.

Hair contends he was trying to fight off a man who lunged into his friend's car outside the Top Flite club the night in July 2007.

A Florida law passed in 2005 says:

A person who is not engaged in an unlawful activity and who is attacked in any other place where he or she has a right to be has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground and meet force with force, including deadly force if he or she reasonably believes it is necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony.

State Attorney Willie Meggs fears the appeals court decision that set Hair free will result in a wave of murder suspects claiming self defense ... even when it's not.

"The folks who will start benefitting from this are not law abiding citizens who are protecting their home, their family, their property. It's going to be thugs out on the street who say, Oh, I thought he had a gun," Meggs said.

Florida was one of the first states in the country to pass a "stand your ground" law. Georgia followed the next year and now 13 states, mostly in the south and west, have similar provisions.