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This is a clip of Larry Elder talking about the Zimmerman case. This was taped while the prosecution was giving their closing argument - before the verdict was rendered. He begins by talking about his experience when he worked as a clerk during the summer for the LA County DA's office. He describes how difficult it was for detectives to convince prosecutors to file a case. Larry then talks about recently contacting a now retired friend who had worked in the LA County DA's office for 30 years. Larry asked him about the case. His friend said, "Larry, we wouldn't...

No wonder Dan Abrams left MSNBC . . . The former legal analyst at the "Lean Forward" network, now at ABC, expressed an opinion this morning that would surely be unwelcome at his former shop. Guest-hosting on Good Morning America, Abrams opined that as a legal matter "I don't see how a jury convicts" George Zimmerman of murder or manslaughter. Abrams sees too much reasonable doubt in the prosecution's case to warrant a guilty verdict. View the video here.

Dan from Squirrel Hill's Blog The medical reports for George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin are enough to create reasonable doubt Because Geroge Zimmerman is the one on trial, the law gives him the presumption of innocence. It is up to the prosecutor to convince the jury beyond a reasonable doubt that Zimmerman is guilty.Because Trayvon Martin is not on trial, he does not have the benefit of the presumtion of innocence.In May 2012, ABC news reported:A medical report compiled by the family physician of Trayvon Martin shooter George Zimmerman and obtained exclusively by ABC News found that Zimmerman was diagnosed with...

Despite ‘Castle Doctrine,’ defendant is convicted in slaying A PHILADELPHIA JUDGE said Wednesday he was convinced that a disabled, retired Marine was being attacked in the moments before he fatally stabbed a man last October, but he concluded that the stabbing was still a criminal act rather than self-defense. Common Pleas Judge Benjamin Lerner then convicted Jonathan Lowe, 57, of voluntary manslaughter and possession of an instrument of crime. The judge found him not guilty of the more-serious charges of first- and third-degree murder. Lowe, who wears a pacemaker and has survived two strokes and two heart surgeries, could face...

...[b]ut eyewitnesses and local officials told Time that the 15 civilians were killed as a result of a rampage by Marines - not by a roadside bomb. Eyewitnesses and local officials claim the Marines raided three civilian houses after the blast, shooting innocent women and children, some still in their night clothes, others shielding children with their bodies. The potentially criminal nature of the incident went unreported until Time magazine presented military officials in Baghdad with accounts it gathered from Iraqis in January. The military began its investigation in March. According to the military, the Marines thought they were under...

NORWALK -- Did he do it? Lawyers on both sides of the Michael Skakel murder trial will argue that question to a jury that could begin deliberating Skakel's fate as soon as this afternoon. Prosecutor Jonathan Benedict will tell the jury of six men and six women that Skakel's own words - in admissions to the crime and conflicting statements about his whereabouts the October 1975 night Martha Moxley was killed - are enough to convict him. Defense attorney Mickey Sherman will assail the credibility of the state's witnesses and emphasize Skakel's alibi that he was about 20 miles away...