[Verginius Rufus]

I'm worried that the jurors may be divided and decide on a "compromise" of manslaughter, which could mean a 30-year prison term...not that Zimmerman would live anywhere near that long if sent to prison. With all the threats being made against his life on the outside, there are bound to be prisoners with nothing to lose who would kill him the first chance they got, if he was incarcerated.

Anyway, if the racebaiters had not jumped on the case, he wouldn't be on trial to begin with, and there wouldn't be any talk of either second degree murder or manslaughter.

Of course the reason that Corey chose second degree murder is that she would have had to get a grand jury to approve a first degree murder charge, and knew she couldn't get that. Second degree was the worst that she could do without a grand jury.

[montanajoe]

Agree but this the the world we live in.

The law can only do so much..it comes down to the common sense of the folks chosen as a jury..and in most cases that is something both sides avoid like the plague when choosing a jury