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To: South40
Luckily this idiot will be weeded out and dismissed due to his online comments. The danger is other potential jurors who are dumb/leftist enough to have made up their minds to convict, yet smart enough to keep that to themselves.

Zimmerman is in serious danger of being convicted. Anything other than a full acquittal will be headed for appellate court, and the presiding judge may have already made some evidentiary rulings which are problematic.

4 posted on 06/13/2013 12:09:37 AM PDT by Cap74 (You can disagree with me. You can attack me. Do not lie to me.)
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To: Cap74
"Zimmerman is in serious danger of being convicted."

Unfortunately its already a given. Just to keep Obama's people from burning and murdering. It will most likely be a complete travesty.

11 posted on 06/13/2013 3:56:51 AM PDT by Lockbar (The guy that fires the last bullet gets to write the history books,)
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To: Cap74
Luckily this idiot will be weeded out and dismissed due to his online comments. The danger is other potential jurors who are dumb/leftist enough to have made up their minds to convict, yet smart enough to keep that to themselves.

If this guy were to be made, publicly, an example of - held in contempt of court and sent for a 30 to 45 -day stay in the state pen - it would be a heck of deterrent to anyone else trying the same stunt.

My understanding is that a potential juror can be held in contempt for saying things in order to get out of jury duty. Can't the same happen for people trying to get ONTO a jury?
13 posted on 06/13/2013 4:08:23 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: Cap74

There is so little evidence to support any action against zimmerman that I think it would be impossible to convict him of involuntary manslaughter.

And in the day of the internet and the courtroom as “fishbowl”, kangaroo courts for high profile cases are very difficult to pull off.

We here about all those innocent black men being convicted of raping white girls back 70 years ago and want to apply the concept to this case. But let me ask you, if those cases had the national spotlight during the trial, even without the internet, do you think they would have resulted in convictions?

I don’t.

That kind of corruption only works well in the dark. You keep it local at all costs. That foundational principle is already blown out of the water in this case. It will be virtually impossible to run an overtly unfair trial in the current political/technological environemnt, and that is what it would take to even come close to getting a conviction here.

I could be wrong, but that’s my opinion, for what it’s worth.


18 posted on 06/13/2013 5:06:28 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: Cap74

“Luckily this idiot will be weeded out and dismissed due to his online comments.”

Why wouldn’t he get time for perjury? Ooops—I forgot who the judge is favoring in the outcome. I bet she’ll count his dismissal against the defense instead.


20 posted on 06/13/2013 5:12:43 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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