Posted on 07/09/2013 11:46:40 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
*On Monday (7/8) the defense attorneys in the George Zimmerman trial brought forth testimony from a parade of witnesses who vouched that the screams for help on the 911 tapes were those of Zimmerman and not Trayvon Martin.
Legal analysts called it a victory for the defense, claiming the testimony of Trayvons father Tracy Martin was weak and contradictory. However, the father did raise one simple question that seems to be largely overlooked why did Zimmerman leave his car in the first place to go after his son?
It would seem the prosecutions best strategy would have been to camp on the 911 call where the dispatchers clearly instructed Zimmerman not to pursue Trayvon stating We dont need you to do that. What was the timeline from that directive to the fatal shot? Zimmermans claim that he was looking for the name of the street location is weak. For someone who has lived on that complex for three years to be as diligent and concerned a watchman as he portrays and not know the location he was patrolling is incredible. Reportedly, there are only three street names throughout the entire complex.
To claim that he could not gather his thoughts through all the excitement and adrenaline flowing doesnt add up as police and other witnesses reported that they found him to be too calm and collected for someone who had just shot another human being.
So it appears the prosecution should have focused on Zimmermans neglecting to follow the instruction of law enforcement professionals thats the cut bank where the defense would erode.
The Florida Supreme Court defines negligence as follows:
Negligence is the failure to use reasonable care. Reasonable care is that degree of care which a reasonably careful person would use under like circumstances. Negligence may consist either in doing something that a reasonably careful person would not do under like circumstances or in failing to do something that a reasonably careful person would do under like circumstances. (Florida Standard Jury Instructions, 4.1).
Zimmermans case should be likened to a drunk driver who rear-ended another vehicle resulting in loss of life. Zimmerman was intoxicated with his own agenda and ambition, plain and simple. The trial should be focused on the initial impact that is how Trayvon was impacted once he realized he was being followed by someone who did not identify himself as he should have.
By the way, in identifying who in fact is screaming help on the 911 tape, Im reminded of a story I once heard where upon viewing her dead husbands body a woman thought it did not resemble him and complained to the funeral director, Thats not my husband to which the director replied How do you know
youve never seen him dead before! So I ask, how can anyone be sure of who is in fact screaming on the tape when theyve never heard what the person in desperation may sound like in the face of death?
Nobody mentions that Trevon was home and could have gone inside instead of lingering outside and setting up the man who eventually shot him. What about that? He could have just gone inside. Knowing that, how does it figure that he wasn’t being aggressive?
I would think that self-defense should be a perfectly valid defense against negligent homicide if the defendant were to claim that he needed to perform some action quickly in order to save his life, and his failure to exercise what would normally be a prudent level of caution in performing such action was a consequence of that.
For example, suppose a defendant were on an elevated walkway when someone started shooting at him; the defendant shoved some obstacles off the walkway in an effort to move to a less vulnerable spot, and one of the falling objects ricocheted so as to kill the shooter. Someone who shoves things off an elevated platform without regard first ensuring they wouldn't hit anyone would generally be guilty of manslaughter, but not murder, if someone were killed by the falling objects. On the other hand, in the described scenario, the defendant's lack of care in shoving the objects should be considered justifiable given that he was being shot at.
We have a race hustler (he calls himself a community organizer!) in the White Hut and running the unJustice Department. Pimping racial hate is their stock and trade. But it is getting so obvious now that even black people are tired of the stupidity. Perhaps, just perhaps, some of the black community are beginning to realize that when little barry bastard boy accomplishes the destruction of America, there will be no more welfare doles and only death and disease will be their lot as the cities they've been imprisoned in rot the faster. Even robbing whitey int he burbs will not be enough to keep them alive long enough to beg for bread and circuses back.
We dont need you to do that.
1. Thats not an order
2. Legally you are under no obligation to obey any instruction given to you by a 911 dispatcher.
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