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The Zimmerman Verdict and Jury Nullification
Jurist ^ | August 7, 2013 | Liz Clark Rinehart, UM Law School Class of 2015

Posted on 08/07/2013 1:37:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If these are the future Massachusetts lawyers, I hope, if I’m ever being tried, that my lawyer comes up against one of them. They’re idiots.

The overwhelming facts vindicating Zimmerman are there and they can’t see them.


41 posted on 08/07/2013 4:04:04 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: Mack the knife
You write this as if it is a bad thing for juries to refuse to convict a defendant of violating an unjust law.

Did you, by any chance, actually read the article? Just asking.

42 posted on 08/07/2013 4:23:58 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Justice for Trayvon: Dig up his body and shoot him again.)
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To: Jabba the Nutt

Case #2 is incorrect. Just saw that he’s not going to be charged.


43 posted on 08/07/2013 4:26:06 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Justice for Trayvon: Dig up his body and shoot him again.)
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To: Bob

I believe they had one sort of black juror, but the article talks about all white juries. That is a constant theme in liberal world. Even when the minority killer is heinous, they create a fable around the “all white jury” that sentenced them to death.


44 posted on 08/07/2013 4:27:21 PM PDT by Williams (No Obama)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

You are scratching your head due to politeness. The people you are describing are racists by definition, pure and simple.

There is no other explanation.


45 posted on 08/07/2013 4:29:00 PM PDT by Williams (No Obama)
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To: Bob

There was a black lady juror.


46 posted on 08/07/2013 5:37:44 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad (Impeach Sen Quinn)
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To: SoldierDad

“There are times I wish that I had the ability to grab people like this around the throat and scream into their face, “George Zimmerman did not initiate the confrontation with Trayvon Martin”

You don’t understand that these people want to make suspecting a black person of criminal intent into justification for a beat down.


47 posted on 08/07/2013 7:15:49 PM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: Cyber Liberty

Oh I figured that part out long ago. I guess I just cannot imagine people believing there is or should be no right of self-defense. I have even talked to several that actually firmly believe that- one woman told me she didn’t think it would be right for her to shoot someone even if they were raping and murdering her. Say what?


48 posted on 08/07/2013 8:35:51 PM PDT by Tammy8 (~Secure the border and deport all illegals- do it now! ~ Support our Troops!~)
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To: Jim Noble

I cannot imagine anyone not understanding the concept of self-defense. I do believe there are many that are upset, the black “leadership” of course is stirring the pot as usual. Many in the media don’t mention self-defense...but there are also many blacks that believe Zimmerman got away with murder. I heard a black lady going on about that in a store the other day and I know she is not an inner city person, she is upper middle class with a successful career and hasn’t been near a ghetto in her whole life.


49 posted on 08/07/2013 8:41:08 PM PDT by Tammy8 (~Secure the border and deport all illegals- do it now! ~ Support our Troops!~)
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To: Tammy8

People are entitled to be so pacific they’ll allow themselves to be killed before they kill someone. It’s a reasoned, if not rational belief system. Just as long as they keep it to themselves and don’t try to preclude my self-defense. That’s why we’ve been seeing the unrelenting propagandizing of this incident: The grabbers are trying to render us all powerless for the benefit of their thug children.


50 posted on 08/07/2013 9:03:33 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Justice for Trayvon: Dig up his body and shoot him again.)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice
For white people, it is one case. For black people, they take a guilty verdict against a black person as a slur against their entire race.

It's all about putting one over on "the man." They knew OJ was guilty as carp, but he killed a whitey and got away with it! The second whitey was a bonus. Instant "hero."

51 posted on 08/07/2013 9:07:11 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Justice for Trayvon: Dig up his body and shoot him again.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
This article nonchalantly dismisses the millenia-old notion of the right to self-defense, and proceeds with some totalitarian wet dream about "reverse jury nullification."

When a patriotic American is confronted by such breathtaking ignorance, such profound detachment from the notions of Freedom and Justice, he or she should be rightly appalled.

People who write this way, talk this way, and think this way represent the greatest threat to Freedom that America will ever see. Whether willful or well-meaning, rich or poor, educated or barbarian, they are totalitarians of the highest order. They hold the type of mindset which fuels the rise of savage regimes like the Nazis and other such murderous collectivist abominations like we saw in the 20th century.

It looks the the 21st century might just outdo the 20th in the "democratically enabled murderous Tyranny" department, especially with the advance of technology and its arbitrary and Unconstitutional use by Government.

Any patriotic American who is aware of our Revolution, the basics of Common Law, the Enlightenment, Natural Rights, Classical Liberalism, and the reason for minimal government in the first place, knows that such "reasoning" is antithetical to everything this country ideally stands for.

We must fight all of the Tyranny which we find ourselves in the midst of, and I am convinced that the price will be not only our treasure, but, even moreso, the blood of many of us and our countrymen.

Rest assured, we and our ilk will be made examples of, by the elite and who take turns dominating us.

But I digress...

52 posted on 08/07/2013 9:09:03 PM PDT by sargon (I don't like the sound of these here Boncentration Bamps!)
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To: Cyber Liberty

Thanks for the update. It was being reported that he would be charged, they seriously considered it.


53 posted on 08/08/2013 4:57:15 AM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (The Stupid Party, they've earned it.)
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To: dila813

One of the many mistakes in this article by the law student class of 2015.


54 posted on 08/08/2013 4:58:48 AM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (The Stupid Party, they've earned it.)
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