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Stand Your Ground In a perverse twist of fate actress Lucy McBath, who plays the grieving mother of a deceased young man in the award-winning movie Stand Your Ground: A Cry for Justice, lost her only son when he was gunned down at a gas station in Jacksonville, FL, just seven months after the movie was made. "While the movie represents the rightful use of the Stand Your Ground Law, Lucy's son represents when it's wrongfully used,” says Jackie Carpenter, mother of the young man who was on trial for his life in the movie.  In Jackie's real life story there was no grieving mother, but the screenwriter for the movie just happened to write in the role and cast actress Lucy McBath as the mother. Jackie and Lucy understand that it's not irony – it is all God! Faith and the legal system collide in the courtroom drama taking place in this gripping movie that portrays the gut-wrenching ordeal Jackie Carpenter and her family endured when her son was arr...