Posted on 06/29/2013 4:06:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In following the George Zimmerman trial somewhat closely online last week, I noted a familiar pattern:
A "heater" case that draws intense media interest.
Sympathetic victim.
Unsympathetic defendant.
Evidence of innocence explained away with far-fetched theories or else ignored.
Evidence of guilt magnified and bolstered with irrelevant detail and innuendo.
These are among the key ingredients for all the wrongful convictions I've written about in the last 20 years.
Investigators and prosecutors put on the blinders early, before all the facts come in. They fill the gaps and inconsistencies in the case with suppositions inspired by sympathy for the victim, rage at the defendant and a desire for what they've decided is justice.
I don't presume to know exactly what happened between Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin on the subdivision walkway on that rainy night in Sanford, Fla., in early 2012. And, a week into the prosecution's case, I don't know how anyone else can presume to know....
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Just the spin comin’ out to make sure the riots and burning will make it a hot time summer in the city when Zimmerman is acquitted. And since most low information types don’t realize the Trayvon image they’ve been told about is a total fabrication, it’ll work.
One of the posts on Conservative Treehouse suggests that Trayvon's parents divorced when he was young, but until fairly recently he'd been raised by his father and stepmother, whom the post suggests were decent people. When the father and stepmother divorced, Trayvon went back to live with his mother. I don't know what the cause and effect relationship exists between Trayvon's return to his mother and his getting into trouble, but does seem that Trayvon may have been a decent kid at one point. It would be ironic, but not necessarily surprising, if one of the person clamoring most louding for "justice" (and money) was, of all persons still living, the one most responsible for his demise.
I must not be reading the same article you are...because this article is indicating the Zimmerman is getting screwed..
And knowing how Obama considers patriots and tea partiers and conservatives as enemies...we can pretty much conclude that WE are his targets, not the rioters.
Miscarriage? More like a Gosnell back room abortion.
Sympathetic as viewed from afar via the mass media’s projections, I believe is what is meant here.
If even the Chicago Tribune sees a potential problem here, it has to be bad.
Fortunately, the fellow who testified of Zimmerman being on the bottom will likely, at least, hang the jury if not be the factor to clear Zimmerman.
Has there been ANY followup, correction, apology for that subtitle?
If that’s the best that can be had of the Chicago Tribune, and Eric Zorn has a long history of nosing into crying injustices, we’ll take it.
Reasonable doubt = acquittal. In any sane system.
You think painting them as “Sympathetic victim” “Unsympathetic defendant” is pro Zimmerman?
They win these so often, that they are outraged when they lose.
This was supposed to fly, just as the Duke LaCrosse frame was supposed to work.
The fifth-column media steals oxygen and then exhales treason when they speak.
Sure looks like a pants-down moment for CNN. If low info people who happened to latch into this have a hissy fit if and probably when Zimmerman walks... will CNN say they regretted it?
I'm must be following a different trial.In the one I am watching the state seems to be presenting the defenses case and doing an admirable job. I keep wondering when the state will present the case against Zimmerman instead of for him.
Our man child King is currently out of the country...so he has plausible deniability...
Well, I believe a lot of prayers have been shot that direction, and the ones to God trump the ones to Satan. Basically, the prosecution “wisdom” is being turned to foolishness, to use a biblical meme here.
“A trouble-making gangbanger suspended for marijuana possession and possibly assault on a bus driver who had burglar’s tools and women’s jewelry on his person? A young man who had just bought the ingredients for “Purple Drank/Purple Lean” when shot and had THC in his blood system? “
WE know all that, but the average yahoos who get their information only from the MSM and daytime talk shows, do NOT!;)
Well said.
No matter how poor the prosecution case, it only matters if the jury can see the truth, and of that I am not confident at all.
I’ve encountered enough Trayvons in my life to use up any sympathy I might have for him. I look at his death as a type of suicide, in as much as he set out on that path long before Zimmerman had to shoot him.
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