Posted on 06/24/2013 5:04:48 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Do the words "double jeopardy" ring a bell, Joe? In 2012, shortly after Trayvon Martin was killed, and when few facts were available, Joe Scarborough didn't hesitate to brand George Zimmerman a "murderer."
Scarborough's pro-prosecution bias was on display again on Morning Joe today, when he declared that the absence of African-Americans on the George Zimmerman jury would "immediately" make a verdict subject to appeal. Really? So if this jury were to acquit Zimmerman, the prosecution would have a valid basis to overturn the verdict on appeal? Sure sounds like double jeopardy—but Scarborough never raised that concern.
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In the R King case the prosecution filed charges the evidence didn’t support, then moved the trial to Simi Valley, home of Reagan, so they could blame a not guilty on Reagan and republican racism
King had a $50+ million law suite filed and a guilty verdict would have proven negligence, not so much for the 4 cops that beat him but the 19 IIRC that stood and watched as he was beat.
Police have an affirmative duty to act if they observe a crime being committed AND they have the ability to stop the crime without putting themselves in danger.
19 law enforcement clearly had the ability to stop 4 from committing a crime so the only thing they could do was create “plausible deniability” that a crime was committed.
The jury saw the video frame by frame over and over and did not conclude a crime was committed so the 19 LE that stood by and only saw it once couldn’t conclude they were observing a crime being committed.
The LA riots weren’t “spontaneous”, they were planned by the Clintons to get the Bent One elected president.
That is why Bush had civil rights charges filed against the police.
It’s also why Clinton timed the raid at Waco to correspond with the second trial of the LA Police.
So Joe thinks that Zimmerman will be convicted? That’s the only way this gets appealed.
If the other 20% riot, and the shooting commences, Sanford will be 99% white in 2014 and the graveyards are full. Just sayin'.
I’ve never worked around criminal law, but as I understand the appellate process at least for civil, only error by the judge allows an appeal to go forward, not the jury selection as agreed to by attorneys for both sides.
One would be curious, tho, as to why the prosecutors allowed a jury without a single African American. I would imagine finding an unbiased African American in Sanford, or one who would admit to thinking anything but that Zimmerman is guilty, is a fool’s errand.
Scarborough is pro-dictator. The reality is the prosecution tried to strike anyone familiar with the second amendment. There is no appeal rights for the prosecutor.
Scarborough must support “guilty untile proven guilty”
He’s wrong. The process of juror selection is very open, and while each side can object for cause a particular juror, they also have a limited number of juror rejections without cause. If one side notices an effort to exclude some group, as a group, it can object to the judge.
Sanford is located in Seminole county, which is 82.4% white, which includes 11% that are Hispanic or Latino. Only 9.5% are black. It was noted that one of the jurors is all or partially Latino.
The jury pool is derived from several sources, and is likely racially balanced. Potential jurors are randomly selected from the jury pool, and asked if there is anything about them that would preclude fairness.
One Martin supporter did try to sneak in and was caught, and the judge might have properly cited him for contempt, instead of just dismissing him, but did not. It didn’t matter because he later returned to the courthouse, made a fool of himself, and was arrested for it.
The bottom line is that racism resulting in grounds for appeal did not happen, as the process worked in a normal fashion.
I don’t care about this Zimmerman stuff which is a distraction and except for the mind melders MAKING it important, and our tendency to follow their lead, it would be another case amongst so many others. I regret I read about it and took time to write a line as well. I wasn’t intending to express any view on legality since I am not in that profession. For me this topic has moved into the category of all other celebrity trials.
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