Amid requests for the Florida Supreme Court to wade into the issue, a South Florida appeals court ruled against a defendant in one of a series of cases about how to carry out a controversial 2017 change to the state’s “stand your ground” self-defense law.

The ruling by a panel of the Third District Court of Appeal was the third time this month that appellate courts have grappled with the issue of the 2017 change, with courts coming to different conclusions.