Jimmy Carter: Jury Made "Right Decision"

The Hill ^ | 7-17-2013

[Cold Case Posse Supporter]

Former President Carter said Tuesday that the Florida jury that acquitted George Zimmerman of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges in the shooting death of teenager Trayvon Martin made the “right decision.”

"I think the jury made the right decision based on the evidence presented because the prosecution inadvertently set the standard so high that the jury had to be convinced that it was a deliberate act by Zimmerman and that he was not defending himself and so forth," Carter said Tuesday in an interview with Atlanta TV station WXIA. "It's not a moral question; it was legal question, and the American law requires that the jury listens to the evidence presented."

[markomalley]

[tomkat]

Dang, gotta be quick around here !

[SierraWasp]

Well, actually... You got me totally confused with anyone who actually gives a snit!!! (ooops! I left of part of the “h”)

[Jeff Winston]

"I think the jury made the right decision based on the evidence presented because the prosecution inadvertently set the standard so high that the jury had to be convinced that it was a deliberate act by Zimmerman and that he was not defending himself and so forth," Carter said...

WTF?

Inadvertently... set... the... standard... too... high?

I'm afraid that wasn't the problem, Einstein.

The problem was that legally speaking, there was never a case to begin with.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Cold Case Posse Supporter.

"I think the jury made the right decision based on the evidence presented because the prosecution inadvertently set the standard so high that the jury had to be convinced that it was a deliberate act by Zimmerman and that he was not defending himself and so forth... It's not a moral question; it was legal question, and the American law requires that the jury listens to the evidence presented."

IOW, the jury ruled immorally. At least the Ethnic Purity of the neighborhood was never in question, eh Jimmuh?