Posted on 07/13/2013 11:46:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The George Zimmerman case should never have been brought. Saturday night after the not guilty verdict was delivered, State Attorney Angela Corey justified bringing the case to put the facts out there. But criminal cases should never be brought simply to put the facts before the public.
No one should be charged with a crime unless prosecutors themselves really believe that the person committed a crime.
Yet, the prosecution and their own experts language consistently showed a lack of certainty. Prosecutors arent supposed to bring cases where the best they can say is that something might possibly have happened or that there was a chance that it did.
Usually defense attorneys are the ones trying to get prosecution witnesses to concede that alternative explanations might be possible. In the Zimmerman trial, even the prosecution couldnt get definite statements out of their own witnesses.
By the end of the trial, with the prosecution conceding that Travyon Martin was likely on top of Zimmerman, prosecutors were forced to speculate that possibly Martin was about to get off of Zimmerman when he was shot. That, by itself, completely undermined the prosecution's claim that Martin was the one calling for help.
The case was so weak that the local Sanford District Attorney refused to bring charges against Zimmerman. That is why, on the orders of the governor, an outside District Attorney, Angela Corey, had to be brought in to handle it.....
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Merry Sunday buddy. :-)
Is there recourse for the jurors to petition the court to withhold their names/addresses for as long as possible? They need enough time to make plans to temporarily relocate should things get ugly.
Yes, there is. But the press is pushing from the other direction, and the precents only reach out as far as six months.
“The George Zimmerman case should never have been brought”
Duh!
The Dems are the ones focused on SYG because they want it repealed. In the past, you had to run if you were able. Now, if you are attacked, you have the right to fight back, even to the death. You no longer have the impressibility to flee if you can. GZ NEVER did ANYTHING to Martin to make Martin think he should be afraid. OTOH, GZ didn't know Martin was 17 nor did he know he was unarmed.
My original post was on the sarcastic side, but really, if the whole world is going to get it's panties in a knot over Trayvon, how long are we supposed to get beat up before we can act on our own behalf? If this thing doesn't go away, that is a question that the Justice dept needs to answer. Just a a hypothetical, if I call someone a prick and make a pass at their wife, am I supposed to allow them to kill me before taking decisive action? I don't think anyone is supposed to lay down and die just because. I was taught to avoid trouble as much as possible, but if trouble finds me to be the one to end it. I don't have the responsibility to get brain damage just to try and keep the peace. Bullies never allow keeping the peace anyway. That is the liberal fallacy right now on the terrorists. If we just don't provoke them with Guantanamo, or putting lard in our food, they will learn to love us. We haven't learned that they have the "great commission" of murdering us and the Jews no matter what. If you give the school bully your lunch money, you can bet he will be back for more. Until some of these jerks that pull people from cars and beat them in the street figure out the guy in the car may have a gun and shoot them, this will not end. Trayvon miscalculated that the Pillsbury Dough Boy might be able to defend himself from a "Fight Club" wannabe. I kept hearing about a cop wannabe, but to say anything about Trayvon was putting him on trial and might soil his memory. Well the guy was a punk and if not now, would have ended up dead or in jail soon anyway. Darwin took care of the situation with GZ, but it would have ended up with an armed homeowner or a cop sooner or later.
It's a shame a 17 year old died. Many of us did stupid things when we were young and grew out of it. But GZ didn't have the obligation to die just to allow Trayvon to learn some life lessons.
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