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Zimmerman Prosecution Imploding, Analysts Say
The New American ^ | 7/5/2013 | Alex Newman

Posted on 07/06/2013 4:21:34 AM PDT by IbJensen

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81 posted on 07/06/2013 3:01:09 PM PDT by JoeProBono (Mille vocibus imago valet;-{)
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To: sonofagun
The next stop will be a federal charge against Z for violating M’s civil rights in order to quell the rioting from Miami to Chicago after Z is aquitted.

How do you charge a private individual with violating someone's constitutional rights? That charge usually only applies to employees or agents of the government (as in the Rodney King case).

82 posted on 07/06/2013 3:01:40 PM PDT by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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The state is just hoping for one holdout who slept through the trial or was hypnotized into a trance by their DNA “expert”.

All one holdout would accomplish is a hung jury. Do you really think the state would re-file the charges after this fiasco?

83 posted on 07/06/2013 3:03:22 PM PDT by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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How do you charge a private individual with violating someone’s constitutional rights?...Get real. The Fed’s did it in Hazleton, Pa. The defendants were found not guilty of murdering an illegal alien, so the Feds prosecuted them with rights violations. Life in prison. About four years ago.


84 posted on 07/06/2013 3:16:55 PM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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No — they wouldn’t but they would try to use the threat of such to negotiate a plea deal. Then by dropping charges they appear noble and magnanimous and save face.

A hung jury can serve the state as much as a conviction.

The only way GZ wins is with a full acquittal.


85 posted on 07/06/2013 3:27:25 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: driftdiver

It was a joke, my FRiend.

Heck, I live here in the midwest and I agree, there is a huge population of illegals. HECK, my city is on the SUPERHIGHWAY direct from MEXICO.

Many of the illegals are more ‘american’ than those in our elected offices, so... the problems are the same everywhere.


86 posted on 07/06/2013 4:34:00 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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How do you charge a private individual with violating someone's constitutional rights?

Like this?

87 posted on 07/06/2013 8:29:58 PM PDT by sonofagun (Some think my cynicism grows with age. I like to think of it as wisdom!)
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