Posted on 07/16/2013 5:10:10 AM PDT by COBOL2Java
The prosecutors of George Zimmerman need a refresher course in criminal law. If you’re a prosecutor and you believe you are putting an evil-doer away, first you have to convict him. This means proving he’s an evil-doer by proving who did the evil act.
That’s not always easy, as we saw last week in Florida. Even an assistant professor of criminal law at the Bald Knob University of Law, Floral Arranging and Mortuary Science could have told the Zimmerman prosecutors there are no slam dunks in murder trials.
Once a case goes to a jury of independent minds with nothing on those minds but the evidence before them, all bets are off. Juries duly instructed can do anything they please with the evidence, and the wonder and beauty of the system is that jurors with so much license invariably take their responsibilities very, very seriously. They’re determined to do the right thing by the law.
Jude M. Faccidomo, a former president of the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, tells the Miami Herald that he thinks the Zimmerman jury clearly believed the right to self-defense applied in this case. “Especially when cases are so gray, like this one was, self-defense really resonates because people can associate with being afraid.” This is what laymen have concluded, too.
Lawyers across the land, with a criminal practice or not, will study this one for a long time. Why was the six-person jury — its members’ identities still kept secret — not more racially diverse? Florida is a surviving melting pot, with newly minted citizens from dozens of nations to choose juries from, and an all-white, all-black or all-Hispanic jury is an anomaly in the counties of central and south Florida.
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Do what I do. Ask them if they think people shouldn't have a valid ID, why do they insist someone have one before they're allowing inside any of their conventions?
It's disguising, I know. I can't help but LOL though. I've seen a picture on FR of Trayvon a tiny child and Zimmerman as a hairy, scary Hispanic biker dude (with a pic of a good character actor...but I can't remember his name).
Not that you'd asked, but my advice is to find something like that expresses the ludicrousness of the situation and remember it when you have to wade through the cesspit of the media's domain.
It does help!
Another caving to the mob. I saw the video about Rodney. The officer in the video was swinging his baton above Rodney. He was not connecting. But it incited the mob.
Was it RINO GHWB, friend of OBAMA and CLINTON, who owes his political life to Reagan or was it Clinton in 1993 who brought the federal charges against the LA police? The riots were in May 1992; the trial followed, but I think Clinton was in office before the “civil rights” charges came. I could be wrong.
On August 4, 1992 a Federal Grand Jury after hearing evidence from federal prosecutors, indicted the four officers on charges of violating King's civil rights.
I hear points like this all of the time, but if this is the case, how does she shop, buy gas, go out? How did dhe get here credit cards, drivers license, clothes, etc in the first place? She obviously was able to go out? How does anyone do anything for that matter? How do people get Welfare, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid? These task either require a photo ID or the ability to go out or both. The bottom line fact is there is absolutely nothing you can do in this life without a photo ID....except apparently vote.
Bottom Line: Requiring photo ID’s protects the rights of the voters. If you don’t have an ID, it’s because you don’t want one or you are not legally entitled to one.
She rarely goes out. My brother in law lives there and takes care of everything you mentioned. She has problem with legal papers but as she started getting much of which you speak BEFORE there was such need for photo ID, she just coasts along. She has enablers in the person of my other inlaws, my wife, and a family member with a different last name who is a notary.
I do agree that voting should require a photo ID. I do not like the idea, though, of the government spying on everything I do by issuing me some sort of national ID. I no longer give doctors my SS number and tell them flat out I do not trust them or anyone having it.
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