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To: notsofastmyfriend

How does a prosecutor prove a case of second degree murder when it’s shown the defendant was beaten to a pulp before he resorted to defending himself?

Now it’s easy to comprehend why the police didn’t charge Zimmerman right after the incident.


16 posted on 05/16/2012 4:37:17 AM PDT by randita
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To: randita
Now it’s easy to comprehend why the police didn’t charge Zimmerman right after the incident.

That's why I've been saying the media narrative is a load of crap since day one.

Only a truther level idiot could believe the cops would give up a murder conviction for anything. as worthless as "racism."

33 posted on 05/16/2012 5:45:53 AM PDT by papertyger ("And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if..."))
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To: randita

I’m not certain that this applies in Florida courts, but in my state, if a prosecutor charges an individual with a crime and the judge instructs the jury that they can find that person guilty of a lessor crime, they can do so.

I felt from the beginning that the prosecutor set the bar high to ensure that a jury would find Mr. Zimmerman guilty, if not of second degree homicide, at least a lessor offense.

Having spent my career in law enforcement, I was adamant that a person be charged with the appropriate crime commensurate with his actions, nothing more nothing less. In Mr. Zimmerman’s case, from the evidence I have heard and seen, the issue should have been resolved by a thorough, competent investigation, period. I see jury nullification/fear of riots in Mr. Zimmerman’s case, I fear.

EODGUY


38 posted on 05/16/2012 6:00:35 AM PDT by EODGUY (Hold on to your copies of the Consititution of the United States. It is going to be re-written.)
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