Traydmark™ calls Zimmerman a "crazy ass cracker" - Not racist.
Zimmerman says: "These guys always get away" - Racist
OMG he said the "G" word!
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Posted on 07/03/2013 2:47:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Two weeks into the George Zimmerman trial the debate has intensified over whether Florida state prosecutor Angela “tough on Crime” Corey and her team is helping or hurting their case against Zimmerman with their witnesses. The string of witnesses has offered a mixed bag of both damning and corroborative testimony against and for George Zimmerman that has been more than enough to the send a red flag up. Though George Zimmerman is not a police officer being prosecuted for misconduct, he’s the closest thing to it without a badge. And that conferred on him some of the same perks that cops tried for misconduct get in hyper racially charged cases where the victims such as Trayvon Martin are young African-American or Hispanics.
The two biggest are the top flight defense attorneys that defend police officers or those with some legal standing. They routinely twist and turn prosecution witnesses and their testimony inside out. They use a storehouse of techniques from subtly playing on racial stereotypes to dredging up the often checkered personal histories of prosecution witnesses to impugn their character,George-Zimmerman-and-Trayvon-Martin veracity, and integrity. This template has been employed with near textbook lethal efficiency by Zimmerman’s defense attorneys.
The far bigger perk, though, for defendants such as George Zimmerman are often the prosecutors. They are loath to bring charges against police officers or those that have close ties with the police that are accused of misconduct. More than a decade ago the U.S. Civil Rights Commission in its landmark study,” Who’s Guarding the Guardians,” of the conduct of police and prosecutors in civil rights cases, told exactly why. It cited the traditionally close relationship between district or county attorneys and police officers, who usually work together to prosecute criminals, the difficulties they have in convincing grand juries and trial juries that a police officer did not merely make an understandable mistake, but committed a crime; and the lack of information about cases that could be prosecuted or systems for reviewing possibly prosecutable cases.
These hurdles were plainly evident in the moments after Martin was gunned down. George Zimmerman was not arrested, his statements largely were accepted without corroboration, and photos after the fact of his alleged injuries at the hands of Martin were widely distributed, and the leaks about Martin’s alleged bad behavior while silent about Zimmerman’s run-ins with the law. Then there was the initial decision by Sanford police officials in consort with local prosecutors not to file charges against Zimmerman.
The testimony of the first prosecution witnesses stirred the controversy. One virtually fingered Martin as the aggressor. And one Sanford police officer strongly hinted that he thought Zimmerman was telling the truth about his version of the confrontation with Martin and that an audiotape of the police dispatcher call seemed to support it. Another one tried to shoot down the notion that Trayvon Martin was racially profiled by Zimmerman. Prosecutors hammered both on their statements and got them to partially back away from them. One was so prejudicial in favor of Zimmerman that the judge even ruled that it could not be admitted. But the jury still heard the officer’s supportive words of Zimmerman.
The way around the often ingrained reluctance of local prosecutors to prosecute cops or individuals such as George Zimmerman or prosecute tepidly has been to appoint a special prosecutor supposedly who can be independent, objective, and with no close ties to law enforcement or those close to law enforcement in a city or county where the cops have been accused of misconduct. That’s why Corey was chosen to prosecute Zimmerman. But the U.S. Civil Rights Commission noted that the appointment of a special prosecutor does not guarantee that police officers accused of wrongdoing will be prosecuted and ultimately punished.
In many cases, the special prosecutor is another county or district attorney selected from a neighboring jurisdiction that may be subject to the same biases and partiality as the original prosecutor. The Commission cites numerous examples where special prosecutors have been appointed in high profile cases to eliminate real or perceived bias by local prosecutors for the defendants yet the prosecution has still failed to get a conviction.
The conventional wisdom is that a hard line law and order prosecutor such as Corey will pull out all stops to nail a George Zimmerman. But the mish mash testimony from the prosecution witnesses against him can’t be casually dismissed when there’s the ever present danger that jurors can interpret confused testimony from prosecution witnesses to mean that it has not proven its case against a defendant beyond the high standard of beyond a reasonable doubt.
The job of Zimmerman’s defense attorneys is to create just enough doubt to win acquittal or at the worst play for a hung jury. The absolute disastrous thing that can happen in these cases is for the prosecution to do anything that can be construed by jurors as aiding and abetting the defense. This is even more imperative in a touchy, polarizing, high profile, racially charged trial.
The prosecution needs its best A game to insure a conviction in these type cases. Without second guessing the George Zimmerman’s prosecution’s choice of witnesses and testimony or trial outcome, the jury as always in these cases is out on how well the prosecution does its job.
I think the Dad unit altered his tats to appear more mainstream.
Oh sure, the prosecution isn’t trying hard enough. Maybe they should tell more lies? LOL
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Have fun y’all! I know I did.
However, I do believe Zimmerman is being railroaded and has been from the start.
The Media has been complacent in pushing a narrative all over the country that is convicting a man before much of the evidence is even made public and they are letting the race pimps like Hutchinson get away with saying whatever they want.
The really sad part is that if the evidence ends up pointing to this being self defense, then the charges will probably get plead down from 2nd degree murder to manslaughter and because this involved a firearm, Zimmerman will probably still have to go to prison for 30 years. This is why the prosecution overreached in the first place and with the help of the media, they will hand the race baiters in the country a sentence THEY want regardless of the truth or evidence presented.
This man is being railroaded and it's just another fine example of how out of control, dishonest, and corrupt the media in this country has become.
Robt. Heinlein would be quite annoyed.
I really would like to know what LEO type perks this guy has gotten.
He’s been railroaded into court without a single reason to do so.
The prosecutor who drafted the warrant request that wound him up in court, is herself being prosecuted for her work on the same warrant. She falsified information on it, or made false inferences that are likely to send her to prison.
That being the case, why hasn’t this trial been stopped.
Seems Zimmerman’s rights were destroyed here.
Perks? Earl, it’s pretty sad when a guy is as clueless as you are.
Unless it is proven that Zimmerman had a “depraved mind” I don’t see how he can be convicted of murder or manslaughter. It appears to be a justifiable use of force.
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Index&Title_Request=XLVI#TitleXLVI
Fla. Stat. § 782.04(2) Murder.— The unlawful killing of a human being, when perpetrated by any act imminently dangerous to another and evincing a depraved mind regardless of human life, although without any premeditated design to effect the death of any particular individual, is murder in the second degree and constitutes a felony of the first degree, punishable by imprisonment for a term of years not exceeding life or as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.
Fla. Stat. § 782.03 Excusable homicide.—Homicide is excusable when committed by accident and misfortune in doing any lawful act by lawful means with usual ordinary caution, and without any unlawful intent, or by accident and misfortune in the heat of passion, upon any sudden and sufficient provocation, or upon a sudden combat, without any dangerous weapon being used and not done in a cruel or unusual manner.
Fla. Stat. § 782.07(1) Manslaughter.- The killing of a human being by the act, procurement, or culpable negligence of another, without lawful justification according to the provisions of chapter 776 and in cases in which such killing shall not be excusable homicide or murder, according to the provisions of this chapter, is manslaughter, a felony of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.
Fla. Stat. § 776.012 Use of force in defense of person.—A person is justified in using force, except deadly force, against another when and to the extent that the person reasonably believes that such conduct is necessary to defend himself or herself or another against the other’s imminent use of unlawful force. However, a person is justified in the use of deadly force and does not have a duty to retreat if:
(1) He or she reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the imminent commission of a forcible felony; or
(2) Under those circumstances permitted pursuant to s. 776.013
Hey Earl, did you by any chance stay at a Holiday Inn last night?
90 days has turned into 9 months
In some cases, the prosecution has a problem. The evidence is that the ‘victim’ needed shooting, and the shooter was justified in doing it.
That means there will be all kinds of trouble that the prosecution has with witnesses.
“Zimmerman was a garbageman,”
No. He was a “crazy ass cracker.” In other words, he was a plumber!
Bitter mob upset by honest trial ping
Lol
Are you referring to Corey? I hadn’t heard about that. Can you point me to a reference
Thnx.
You’re welcome.
Disclaimer: IANAL. There’s the link, read the statutes for yourself and decide. IMO there’s no case here.
Traydmark™ calls Zimmerman a "crazy ass cracker" - Not racist.
Zimmerman says: "These guys always get away" - Racist
OMG he said the "G" word!
Corey is clearly a racist in trying to put the (partially balck) Hispanic Zimmerman in the the hoosegow.
>> I think the Dad unit altered his tats to appear more mainstream.
These days it’s confusing... did he get MORE tats to be mainstream? Or have tats removed?
It’s worse than clueless. Earl is really putting the prosecution team at risk. By saying they’re holding back and not prosecuting to the fullest he’s making them a target for the wrath of the angry mob. C’est domage! ;-)
Knock knock....... Really????
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