Posted on 07/11/2013 9:11:32 AM PDT by Sopater
As expected, the Judge in the George Zimmerman case ruled that in addition to Second Degree Murder, she will instruct the jury on the lesser included offense of Manslaughter, as required by Florida case law.
In a surprise move this morning, the prosecution asked the Judge to drop the Aggravated Assault charge and to instruct the jury on Third Degree Murder, which is murder in the course of committing a felony.
The felony the State wanted as the predicate was Aggravated Child Abuse (Jury Instruction) because Trayvon Martin was 17 at the time of the shooting.
According to Don West, the defense was not notified until 7:30 a.m. this morning.
This surprise is important because the defense did not have time to research the law, while the State presented numerous cases. Generally it is not a defense to child abuse that the perpetrator did not know the age of the victim. This is an unusual circumstance, however, where Zimmerman was punched in the nose and the “child” was on top punching him — to say that excessive use of force in defense of an attack by a “child” is child abuse certainly requires some time to research and argue. I don’t know the answer to that legal question, but the court should give the defense time to research and argue it. (Update 11:35 a.m. — Judge just indicated she will give defense time to research, but didn’t indicate how long until 1 p.m.)
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220? Not according to Medical Examiner.
As history tells us, the political/regulator class (”outside forces,” according to the Police Chief) is making a big mistake by continuing its putsch for a regime of revenge.
Heah Kum de Jud.
Put her on a bicycle and tell her to ride across Wyoming. I doubt she would make it more than twenty mile.
I'll be honest: MY inadequacy. Even those of us who agree on most points are going to quibble about the points of disagreement, and that's rending us apart overall. The drooling masses are following the groups who promise them things, and even if those things are never rendered, they'll still follow so long as they draw breath.
I've said it on this forum plenty of time: I will fight. I will fight alongside any American willing to fight. But I will not start the fight. Obama and Company are too cunning to start the fire. They'll use proxies and then exercise their "strength" through law. This is exactly what Rand warned us about in "Atlas Shrugged," but we're all helpless to stop it.
This is a good thing. Some of us have been banging our heads against a wall, trying to get moderates to see the damage to our culture, and talking about the corruption of the Civil Rights movement. We have been pointing to the foundation of Saul Alinsky’s style community organizing in ruining our Constitution, for many years.
NOW- everyone can see it in black and white. There are no more shadows anymore.
Civil Rights for all , was the right thing to do, but the Civil Rights movement has been used by Marxist, Communist and criminal forces to corrupt our system and steal from us.
“WATCH CAREFULLY, HISPANICS (and EVERYONE!) at the lengths the Obama administration will go to, in order to send an innocent man to jail.”
That sure puts it in perspective, Mr. K. But will enough Americans understand the implications?
If he’s convicted, it’s time to go get George outta jail. Break that mutha down.
This is total BS! Zimmerman is innocent. O has ordered this hack judge to find him guilty of something...probably for being white. What a joke of a trial. Reminds me of Stalin’s show trials. Zimmerman has about as much of a chance of walking as he would from Joe’s kangaroo court.
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