Posted on 07/19/2013 8:29:30 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
Never attribute to evil intent that which can be easily explained by ordinary incompetence. (A variant of Occam’s Razor.)
Yes, Angela Corey let hi off in purpose. I hope angry protestors show up at her house to show their displeasure.
bttt
Looking for _any_ rationale to justify a reality that they refuse to accept.
I wondered the same thing at first - I thought maybe the prosecutor didn’t think charges should have been brought in the first place. But, really, all of those points can be explained away. 1) Change of venue: Jury members in Sanford would likely feel more pressure to convict than jury members elsewhere. 2 & 3)Picking jurors. The defense also ended up with jurors they didn’t want. Many people thought having women on the jury would help the prosecution - that they’d feel sorry for Trayvon’s family and feel that GZ should pay in some way. 4)Prepping Rachel Jeantel: The prosecution did not have years to do this. 5)Playing the Hannity interview: Not a good move, but the prosecutor used it to try to show inconsistencies in GZ’s accounts. The prosecutor didn’t have much else to work with. 6) Not objecting when the police officer said he believed GZ’s story. Yeah, that was a mistake. But whether he objected at the time, or the next day (as happened), the jury heard it.
Reminds me of the DUmmies in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections.
I watched a lot of the trial, and I don’t think the prosecutors tried to throw the case; they just didn’t HAVE a case. They had no evidence of 2nd degree murder, and their evidence of manslaughter was negated by the facts clearly demonstrating self-defense.
Jesse has already hinted at that.
BINGO
end of story
The Prosecuters had no evidence, and a decent, hard working, Peruivan defendant who gave back to his community.
ahahahaha
Good one
An unfortunate headline.
You’d think the “no evidence” thing would stop them. (Naive, I know.)
No, they were just stupid political hacks.
I’d want this guy reporting if I get in a fight with Manny Pacquiao.
“Clearly, Our Man in Washington didn’t want to win the fight. If he wanted to win, he would have come up with a better strategy than letting Pacquiao hit him very hard in the face in the first three seconds. After he took the punch, every fighter knows it’s best to back up and stay on the feet. Instead, Our Man In Washington fell to the mat in a bloody mess. Now if he really wanted to win, he would have risen by the count of ten. Another obvious mistake. In fact, he didn’t wake up until they revived him in the hospital...”
NJCT ping?
Oh boy. Ping
Fer sure, the prosecutors were hoping that they would get a hung jury. That way they would have the option of retrial ... or preferably not ... while the whole thing blew over. The jury ladies surprised them.
“You went to law school at COSTCO?
Yeah, I know, it was tough to get in, but my dad’s an alumnus here and pulled some strings”
Nothing factual ever pointed to anything besides simple self-defense.
I object to the media meme that Zimmerman did something wrong, or that he “started it”.
The lies so often spoken of in this case are clearly those of the social engineers in the media, the lawyers and the government.
Al Sharpton’s involvement wasn’t enough of a clue?
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