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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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1 posted on 06/12/2013 8:03:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This “trial” is turning out to be the farce everyone knew that it would be.


2 posted on 06/12/2013 8:06:41 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (23,116,441 households on Food Stamps! Now that's what I call HISTORICAL!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"as a lawyer for the family of Trayvon Martin stressed the teenager Zimmerman is accused of murdering was not the one on trial."

Well...DUH....that's because the perp is DEAD.

If he was alive, he SHOULD be the one who is on trial.

3 posted on 06/12/2013 8:07:05 PM PDT by traditional1 (Amerika.....Providing public housing for the Mulatto Messiah)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The claim is self defense.The defendant's injuries combined with Martin's lack of injuries (apart from the GSW) very,very,*very* strongly supports the defendant's claims.There's strong evidence to suggest that the deceased was a filthy punk...or at least a filthy punk in the making.There's no such evidence to suggest a similarly shady past for the defendant.You pigs just can't stand the fact that that punk very probably got what he deserved.

Is that clear enough for ya,you filthy lawyer?

4 posted on 06/12/2013 8:10:07 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Civil Servants Are No Longer Servants...Or Civil.)
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To: traditional1

“If he was alive, he SHOULD be the one who is on trial.”

No worries. The little puke was judged in the afterlife and the reward is someplace “warm”.


5 posted on 06/12/2013 8:10:47 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When the defendant is asserting self defense then the victim is also on trial.


6 posted on 06/12/2013 8:11:55 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Martin is on trial. The prosecution needs to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Martin did not act so as to place Zimmerman in reasonable fear of imminent death or great bodily injury. So Martin’s acts are on trial.


7 posted on 06/12/2013 8:13:17 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: max americana
"The little puke was judged in the afterlife and the reward is someplace “warm”

I don't know all the Facts of the Case, but, this is a lynching of George Zimmerman in placating the inner-city tribal parasites, and Zimmerman incarcerated would be surrounded by a "Disproportionate Number of Minorities" (in DOJ/Civil Rights Dept. terminology).

He would not survive imprisonment with former hoodie-wearers......

8 posted on 06/12/2013 8:16:24 PM PDT by traditional1 (Amerika.....Providing public housing for the Mulatto Messiah)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is what reasonable doubt for the defendent is, putting the plaintif on trial.

Funny how these black people who always wanted reasonable doubt for themselves and OJ Simpson now want to take it away in this case.

Minds of tyrants: only if I do it.


9 posted on 06/12/2013 8:17:46 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: max americana

Indeed, choose content, get content. They want pop sex, they get with it pop suffering. You cannot have flesh without flesh problems and tweak it like butchers at that. MAny blacks in America are like waking into a bad drug withdrawal. Pain will be what remains.


11 posted on 06/12/2013 8:24:37 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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P-Marlowe ~:” When the defendant is asserting self defense then the victim is also on trial.”

That’s true !
Especially since Travon already had stolen goods in his possession while in school. Too bad the goods weren’t linked to him by the police.
Imagine , it took a reporter to link the stolen goods to Travon, and they were found in his backpack.
Principal LEO concepts : motive , opportunity , timeing , prior history, ability , tools/property , etc.

Too bad the judge wouldn’t let prior MMA and fight club enter into court depositions/statements .
Nor the photo of the hand gun.
Incidently , after the shooting , I understand that the number of burglaries fell off dramaticly.
Where there is smoke ,..there generally is a fire !


12 posted on 06/12/2013 8:24:51 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (" Criminals simply donÂ’t care if they break the law. " by Larry Correia)
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"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)

Wow. I didn't expect to read that being said by a "middle-aged black man". Maybe suburban blacks are seeing the race card is hindering them being judged by their character since it makes everything about race.

13 posted on 06/12/2013 8:26:30 PM PDT by 5thGenTexan
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To: JudgemAll

Exactly right: “minds of tyrants,” wish I had thought of that expression


14 posted on 06/12/2013 8:30:43 PM PDT by Theodore R. ("Hey, the American people must all be crazy out there!")
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Attorney for Trayvon Martin family says teen not the one on trial

Yes, he pretty much is. It is necessary to know if he jumped Zimmerman.

That is what the whole case pretty much hangs on. And so it is necessary to know if he had a habit of jumping people and attempting to beat the tar out of them.

15 posted on 06/12/2013 8:32:37 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Revenge is a dish best served with pinto beans and muffins)
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B-35 seems to have a brain; no doubt that’s sufficient cause for the Prosecution to seek his dismissal.


16 posted on 06/12/2013 8:33:57 PM PDT by Rembrandt (Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

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


17 posted on 06/12/2013 8:40:50 PM PDT by cherry
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I thought I heard the family say that “Zimmerman, the one who murdered Trayvon”...on my local news tonight.

No “allegedly murdered”, no “thought to have murdered”...

just “murdered”.


18 posted on 06/12/2013 8:49:16 PM PDT by Mortrey (Impeach President Soros)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
It's a railroad trainwreck of Just-us.


19 posted on 06/12/2013 8:57:00 PM PDT by Paladin2 (;-))
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt
"..after the shooting , I understand that the number of burglaries fell off dramaticly.."

Could be a set of multiple reasons there.

20 posted on 06/12/2013 8:59:28 PM PDT by Paladin2 (;-))
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