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Attorney for Trayvon Martin family says teen not the one on trial
Fox News / The Associated Press ^ | June 12, 2013 | Serafin Gomez

Posted on 06/12/2013 8:03:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Attorneys quickened the pace in jury selection Wednesday in the George Zimmerman trial, as a lawyer for the family of Trayvon Martin stressed the teenager Zimmerman is accused of murdering was not the one on trial.

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Juror B-35, a middle-aged black man who owns vending machines, described protests last year over Martin's shooting as "saber-rattling." He wondered why there weren't protests over the fatal shootings of other African-American men in Sanford, the Orlando suburb where Martin was killed in February 2012. He also said he believed Zimmerman deserved his day in court.

"I think they politicized it and made it a racial issue, and I didn't like that," said Juror "B-35. "I wasn't agreeing with the racial connotation."(continued)

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: benjamincrump; conspiracy; florida; railroaded; selfdefense; traydmark; trayvon; zimmerman
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To: cherry

cherry ~ the stolen goods.....were they ever traced back to the proper owner?......

Someone on this board said that some of the goods were returned to the rightful owner.
But there is no confirmation of that ..


21 posted on 06/12/2013 9:03:29 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (" Criminals simply donÂ’t care if they break the law. " by Larry Correia)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt
Would be a gem if one of the possible jurors would say that they heard that Travon had stolen goods in his possession while in school.
22 posted on 06/12/2013 9:13:16 PM PDT by Bronzy
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To: traditional1
Well...DUH....that's because the perp is DEAD.

If he is dead, why does he have a lawyer at Jury selection?

23 posted on 06/12/2013 9:21:28 PM PDT by itsahoot (It is not so much that history repeats, but that human nature does not change.)
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To: JudgemAll

I heard his dad said that he trusts that a fair trial will be obtained with the jurors being picked. Fair meaning they come back with a guilty verdict. If not (which is of course the correct verdict) it will be because the jury was bias or racist or something.


24 posted on 06/12/2013 9:27:54 PM PDT by rktman
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To: Bronzy

Bronzy ~:” Would be a gem if one of the possible jurors would say that they heard that Travon had stolen goods in his possession while in school. “

True !
But since the police didn’t follow it up , it becomes a moot point.
Nevertheless , the issue of possession of stolen property was discovered by a reporter who followed up the backpack taken from Trayvon at school.
The property remained in the police property clerks office, so the ‘chain of evidence’ hadn’t been broken.
As I recall , the judge wouldn’t allow the backpack nor property into the trial as it wasn’t present at the timne of the assault.


25 posted on 06/12/2013 9:29:34 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (" Criminals simply donÂ’t care if they break the law. " by Larry Correia)
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To: Rembrandt

How long until B-35 gets “outed” and his life and his family are threatened?


26 posted on 06/12/2013 9:54:48 PM PDT by boop ("You don't look so bad, here's another")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Attorney for Trayvon Martin family says teen not the one on trial

Au contraire! Trayvon is and should be on trial. He brought his own death on himself!

27 posted on 06/12/2013 10:01:52 PM PDT by DustyMoment (Congress - another name for anti-American criminals!!)
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To: traditional1

If “No Limit (You-know-what)” was still alive, Zimmerman would be dead (as the Skittles thug was in the process of killing him).


28 posted on 06/12/2013 10:32:34 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trayvon should be on trial for attempted murder, but he already got the death sentence for it.


29 posted on 06/12/2013 10:34:45 PM PDT by faucetman ( Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: itsahoot

Good question ... This is a criminal trial, not civil .... Yet.


30 posted on 06/13/2013 1:46:23 AM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: itsahoot
"If he is dead, why does he have a lawyer at Jury selection?"

As in ALL things; FOLLOW THE MONEY.

This farce of a Show Trial, is to cater to Blacks to show that they are Protected, even when they are thugs, malcontents, and living off others (whitey). It has NOTHING to do with Justice (already put $100's of thousands in the parents pockets, when some ambulance-chaser extorted a Settlement from the Development Owners, to avoid having black mobs burn it to the ground like in LA after the Rodney King circus).

NO BLACKS were ever Prosecuted when they burned down that neighborhood, or beat up Koreans and Whites.....Reginald Denny got hammered and went to Court for a mock trial, and wound up being told to just forget about it and go home.

Few whites have EVER been successful in Racism cases against Blacks, and, there are no Deep Pockets to empty in the Black Community.

31 posted on 06/13/2013 4:25:59 AM PDT by traditional1 (Amerika.....Providing public housing for the Mulatto Messiah)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I beg to differ. The issue is self defense. Trayvon is very much on trial.


32 posted on 06/13/2013 4:56:33 AM PDT by Chickensoup (200 million unarmed " people killed in the 20th century by Leftist Totalitarian Fascists)
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To: traditional1

Interesting that the trial is starting now right on time for Riot Season.

I think that the current administration is trying to tear the country apart and this is the lever.

It also will take attention away from the more serious issues : like the IRS, the NSA, the lousy economy,

This is just diversion,


33 posted on 06/13/2013 4:59:07 AM PDT by Chickensoup (200 million unarmed " people killed in the 20th century by Leftist Totalitarian Fascists)
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To: rktman

Indeed, just like double jeopardy was ignored in the ROdney King trial.


34 posted on 06/13/2013 6:05:20 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Do you happen to have a source for the info you just stated? Would you mind sharing?


35 posted on 06/13/2013 8:54:55 AM PDT by DrewsMum
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Someone needs to put a sock in Crumpets and Crew.


36 posted on 06/13/2013 12:17:13 PM PDT by Jaded (Really? Seriously?)
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To: DrewsMum

Which information ?

The reporter who connected the paperwork about the jewelry in the backpack was , as I recall , from a newspaper in Miami. This backtrack by the reporter occurred several months after the assault incident .
The police had recieved the backpack (including a bag of jewelry) after school security apprehended Travon when he had marijuana in his possession on school grounds .
There would have been a CR ( Crime Report number) associated with that apprehension by school security .
There was no known police follow up on the backpack as it preceeded the assault by several months .
Additional information on this issue also included the fact that the Police Chief tried to minimize notariety of criminal issues arising at the school.
The reporter took the CR to the police property clerk which identified the backpack as belonging to Travon and the original apprehension on school grounds .
I beleive all the information is contained in FreeRepblic archives , although I don’t recall the source , nor had I made copies for futrue consideration .


37 posted on 06/13/2013 2:53:35 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (" Criminals simply donÂ’t care if they break the law. " by Larry Correia)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Ok, thank you for that info.


38 posted on 06/14/2013 7:09:51 AM PDT by DrewsMum
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