Judge clears Florida officer in shooting of UPS driver taken hostage citing "stand your ground"

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A South Florida judge on Thursday cleared a police officer of wrongdoing in the shooting death of a during a 2019 robbery.

Broward Circuit Judge Ernest Kollra ruled that , who had been charged with manslaughter in the death of UPS driver Frank Ordonez, could not be prosecuted because Florida's so-called “stand your ground” law justified the shooting, the South Florida SunSentinel reported.