Posted on 07/10/2013 6:47:08 PM PDT by Perdogg
If Obama decrees it,
You must convict.
I pity what Zimmerman is going through. He loses either way, but I’d rather have my life and take my chances on the outside. He’ll be dead and quickly in prison.
I’d say you’re placing too much faith in your ‘peers’.
Excellent and why the whole notion of 'Hispanic' is absurd, followed closely by the term Latino. A Guatamalan is not a Mexican is not a Chilean and they don't think so either.
This (kind of stupid comment like the Boston Professor Break-In resulting in a "beer summit" with the President and VP Dumbass), was even worse than Nixon opening his big trap about Charles Manson right during the trial.
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The State of Florida must be desperate to put Zimmerman away. How about illegal parking?
How do you like yesterday, when she kept asking GZ if he wanted to testify, and his lawyer kept saying “I object” and she kept saying “Overruled! Overruled!” I never seen anything like that in my life. WTF? She was basically removing his lawyer in an attempt to get him to screw himself. This case is unreal.
“Oh I see, so all the Mexicans in East LA call themselves Mestizo’??”
I never said that. Mexicans in LA probably call themselves Mexican or Latino
“Where in tarnation are you from?”
A place where no one says tarnation. :)
Sounds like a "community organizer" got to her. That, or the Bloods or Crips.
Either way she's trying to distance herself from a GUILTY verdict.
Seems to me the prosecutor went for all or nothing. Now he’s beginning to see what the rest of us saw all along. He’s about to wind up with zip. Desperate, he now seeks to add in the charges others were saying he should have from the onset.
What bothers me most about this late in the game tactic, is that the defense didn’t have the ability to address these lesser charges throughout the trial.
They provided a defense against the charges brought. Now the prosecutor is trying to change the charges after the fact, and after the defense has nearly rested their complete defense.
How is that fair? Witnesses could have been asked questions, evidence could have been submitted, and the tactics of the defense could have been different realizing they had to impress the jury that lesser charges were not applicable too.
People have made a big stink out of the fact the judge asked Zimmerman himself if he was going to testify. That seemed to them to be prejudicial. Judges do this. They want to hear from the individual themselves that they are making this decision of their own free will. It helps shut down a defense move later on that the defendant wanted to testify, but was not allowed to by his attorney.
Point is, I don’t understand everything that goes on in court. Perhaps it’s reasoned to add in these extra charges. To me, a lay person, it doesn’t seem fair at all. That said, it may be something that happens all the time.
Doesn’t seem reasoned to me.
Mistrial materal.
I was amazed.
"Pleeeze? Pretty PLEEZE? C'mon... Really??? Awwww... Are you sure? ABSOLUTELY sure??? Awwww. No? Are you telling the truth? Think about it again. Let me ask you another way... Please. Really?"
Are they going to have a beer together?
Misdemeanor theft - loss of Skittles.
I think the decent folk of Florida are outnumbered now
Live in SE Fla originally from Pa.
Many Fla residents are from lib states.
Native Floridians are great people, and not necessarily tainted by PC indoctrination learned in prior states.
The prosecutor will stand up and object, The crooked judge will spank him and tell jury to disregard, but I think it`s worth getting it out there in some fashion
The risk (and a significant one, with this judge) is that the prosecution would ask for, and the judge will grant, a mistrial. This trial has gone very, very well for Zimmerman - the possibility of having to do it all over again is not something he would want to risk.
This is not a “late-game” tactic. This stage of trial is often when the parties start making motions about what sort of instructions the jury will and will not receive. And, manslaughter is a “Category 1” lesser-included offense under Florida law, meaning (as I understand it) that if one party requests an instruction for it, the judge MUST give it.
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