What I was trying to say was...I am for justice and sometimes I feel the ones like Casey Anthony and OJ's trials were a bigger farce and I felt those guys were guilty. Oddly enough the media was so focused on these cases and all of them are not guilty
Thank you to those jurors who did not allow the prosecution to sway them with their horse manure... When someone attacks you with physical force YOU ARE ALLOWED to DEFEND YOURSELF WITH physical force. PERIOD PS- can the media EVER stop showing pictures of black criminals when they were 8-9 years old, the media is just as culpable in this travesty as are those so called retarded black leaders. oh yeah... osamabama go FVCK yourself!!! YOU TOTAL DOUCHEBAG!!!
I wonder how many similar shootings have happened in the time this case was going on. They hand pick what they shove down our throats purposely,and further divide people. We are getting fukin weaker by the minute.
Try looking at the shootings in Chicago. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/08/chicago-shootings_n_3561407.html These talking monkeys, arent interesting in saving young black lives. Their interest lies in keeping the racial grievance mongering profession alive.
OJ, did not do...what the prosecution attempted to say he did. That was a Just verdict. I saw every minute of that trial.
By the way they need to reevaluate the "Stand your Ground" law...I dont know why this lady went to prison for 20 years for firing a shot in the air http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_...rs-for-warning-shot-did-she-stand-her-ground/
This is where things belonged at the end of the affair. The prosecution did not appropriately charge Zimmerman and they failed to prove the charges they brought against him. Having him found guilty of Manslaughter in a trial that was prosecuted as Murder in the 2nd when those charges were only brought against him after he had rested his case would have been unjust.
the state made very compelling arguments why she was not defending herself. she had the ability to escape, and instead returned to the scene to confront him. that doesn't sound like defense to me, even if she was in fear for her life. from that perspective the works fine. ironically, that is similar to the situation that Zimmerman defenders use to validate why he was defending himself and not chasing down a scared child. Trayvon had an opportunity to flee, just as the woman in the case did, but instead returned to the scene and thus possibly instigated a confrontation, just as she did. for her, it meant she wasn't defending herself from an imminent threat; for Zimmerman it meant that Trayvon wasn't running scared for his life with Zimmerman pursuing, and thus raises the possibility that Trayvon instigated the attack. the law that needs to be re-evaluated in this case is the 10-20-life law that gave her a 20 year sentence.
Because she went out to the garage, got a gun, came back inside and fired it, allegedly in the direction of two kids, the jury took 12 minutes to convict.
Mandatory minimums are a travesty. Dont we have Judges and Juries, to judge the facts and the law where the rubber meets the road?
The reason the mandatory minimum sentencing law ever came to be is because the juries & judges were not sentencing the bad guys to the appropriate amount of jail time that they deserved. They were letting people convicted of serious crimes off with relatively little jail time. What should be abolished is parole, how many people have committed heinous crimes while on parole, now that's a travesty.
Mandatory minimums came in because of drug crimes, first localized then thanks to Nancy Reagan's ridiculous scaremongering and the racist undertones of crack vs Powder cocaine it blew up nation wide. It had nothing to do with "bad guys" getting inappropriate jail time, it had to do with a wildly unproductive approach to drug abuse and being scared of Black people.
She was an idiot with a terrible lawyer who should have taken the 3 year offer been out in 18 Months with good behavior. Stand your ground was barely a part of the case, she claimed it, but it was clearly not applicable as the judge pointed out. SYG only applies if you have a reasonable fear that your life is in danger and your only option is the use of deadly force. She LEFT THE HOUSE, she could have just kept going, but instead she got a gun, walked back into the house, and fired the gun at someone who was not physically attacking her at the time. The reason she got 20 is the dumb 10-20-life law, which makes gun crime mandatory minimums ridiculous. Also firing a gun inside a house is unbelievably stupid and reckless unless you mean to kill someone, as the prosecution points out the bullet ricocheted around in a room where her kids were, she absolutely was guilty of the charge filed against her.
I actually blame people who kill someone because of race, sexual preference or bigotry before I blame an activist. and It's worsening because people are getting away with it. The protesters are the effect, not the cause... I mean seriously?
I don't follow many if any court cases, so can someone let me know if this is the norm: Is it normal for the defendents and the prosecution to have basically "post-game" interviews then for both sides to attack each other in it. I feel like at the end of the day, a kid died and both sides acted very inappropriate and almost looked like they forget that a kid died. Also, what are civil suits, and how was the defender saying they would seek immunity? Thanks.
Agree tee....I should have been more specific. We are all activists when we open our mouths to speak opinion and truth......what we believe in. However many current civil rights activists are spreading venom and creating doubt and anger where there isn't. This feeds protestor psychology to no end - creating and promoting a cycle of hate and mistrust. To use ur analogy I think the majority of protestors are both the cause and effect - mostly fueled by the undeserving public figures they look to. I mean do u actually listen to what these hacks say on national TV. It's quite disturbing and reeks of discrimination in all directions.
The NAACP is now urging the DOJ to pursue and prosecute Zimmerman under Federal Civil Rights Law. Remarkably Zimmerman can be charged and tried for murder under Federal Law and it would not constitute double jeopardy (according to a few legal experts I watched on the Sunday Morning Programs). If Holder/Obama or whoever decide to move forward and find enough to move forward max penalties for ZImmerman could include life or execution under federal capital punishment. I doubt this happens but this is a political case after all and there is a mid term election coming up. This is on top of the wrongful death civil suit that will be obvioulsly filed.
Not surprised by the verdict at all. Just another case lost by an inept prosecutor in Florida. First Casey Anthony, now Travon Martin. If I were planning to kill someone, Florida would be the place to do it. Oh well, busines as usual. Pass the ketchup.
