Posted on 07/12/2013 8:13:28 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
If you find out, please let me know too
Racial profiling is a method for discriminating, for decision making, for aiding choices.
Profiling is not a crime. Profiling is a useful tool.
I stopped watching Hannity when he would have $harpton on his show and introduce him as "My very good friend, the rev. Al Sharpton".
Disgusting.
It is a non capital case and states make their own laws, in Fla. it is a six person jury when the death penalty is not on the table.
>> The prosecution’s spin was that Trayvon saw the gun, screamed (they did maintain that he was the screamer), and started to back off of Z, whereupon he was immediately shot.
Yeah, that’s one of about six mutually exclusive “theories” they have offered, without evidence to prove ANY of them.
This trial was criminal law turned on its head. The defense normally isn’t required to prove ANYTHING, merely to introduce reasonable doubt into what the prosecution is seeking to prove.
Yet all the prosecution could do is throw this theory, and that factoid, and this and that emotional accusation, into an unconnected framework to introduce “reasonable doubt” into the evidentary PROOF OF INNOCENCE the defense built — primarily from the prosecution’s own witnessess.
It is a total travesty of justice that this case ever went to trial. And another travesty that, after going to trial and the prosecution failing to prove a damn thing during their presentation, that the judge denied request to issue a Verdict of Acquittal.
>> If I were governor, knowing the facts, I would pardon GZ at my earliest opportunity in the event of an absolutely Tyrannical conviction.
Fat chance.
Republicans Rick Scott and Pam Bondi are part of the Florida false prosecution railroad themselves. Both were instrumental in the decision to railroad a man for political cover and to ingratiate them with blacks, rather than letting the local boots on the ground make the call. If it was up to local LEO, Zimmerman would never have been charged; they saw immediately that it was self defense.
Hopefully these jurors are reading where George told the cops he was screaming and hollering. That’s one of the first things he told them. Then when told that the entire assault was on film, he said he sure hoped so. Does this sound like a guilty man??????????? Good lord.
Six jurors is just the law in Florida. The less jurors the less chance of a hung jury. The deck was stacked against Zimmerman when no men were allowed to be on the jury. The one token alternate would have never been chosen unless the other women alternates had died. They put 6 women on the jury, and no men, because they automatically figured that women didn’t have as much sense about self-defense as a man does. Six women, with five of them having a bunch of kids. To say the jury is exactly what the State wanted is an understatement. And if they show courage and tell the Obama race baiters to go to hell they are not convicting an innocent man, Federal charges will be filed by Eric Holder on Zimmerman for violating the civil rights of Traythug. He will then be tried again before an all black jury.
I did my research this morning before I had to step out and the answer is the same, based on a state court ruling.
Before I had to step out early this morning, to answer the question, I did some internet search and found some links and it says it is legit to have half the number of jurors, 6, instead of the tradional 12.
A starting link:
Do not be surprised if this commentary is proven correct by the jury, the 3 reasons why GZ is inocent:
http://www.capitalisminstitute.org/george-zimmerman-facts/
One not mentioned: under Florida law, even if George Zimmerman had provoked Trayvon Martin’s attack, he would still have retained the right to retreat or otherwise remove himself from danger. If prior to shooting TM, GZ had made all reasonable efforts to retreat or otherwise escape TM’s attack, that would render irrelevant any question as to who started the “fight”. The witness accounts and 911 tape which show that George was trying for at least 45 seconds (probably well over a minute) to end the attack by getting someone else to intervene are in and of themselves sufficient to prove justification.
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