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Did George Zimmerman's prosecutors try to get him off?
Times-Picayune ^ | July 15, 2013 | Jarvis DeBerry

Posted on 07/19/2013 8:29:30 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows

George Zimmerman was acquitted of killing Trayvon Martin, a New Orleans attorney complained to me Monday, because the prosecution didn't want to win a conviction. The attorney, who has worked at Tulane and Broad as an assistant district attorney and as a defense lawyer, called me to say that he's handled hundreds of homicide cases over his career and that he's never seen prosecutors who want to win make the series of missteps that the Florida prosecutors made. So he's convinced they lost on purpose. He offered six reasons for his belief that the state threw the case.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: blackkk; blackrage; florida; georgezimmerman; holder; trayvonmartin; zimmerman; zimmermanprosecutors; zimmermantrial
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To: Slings and Arrows

Never attribute to evil intent that which can be easily explained by ordinary incompetence. (A variant of Occam’s Razor.)


21 posted on 07/19/2013 9:00:31 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Yes, Angela Corey let hi off in purpose. I hope angry protestors show up at her house to show their displeasure.


22 posted on 07/19/2013 9:02:13 PM PDT by MNDude (The system worked!)
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To: Impala64ssa

bttt


23 posted on 07/19/2013 9:03:48 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Looking for _any_ rationale to justify a reality that they refuse to accept.


24 posted on 07/19/2013 9:07:20 PM PDT by VoiceOfBruck (Hello NSA monitors!)
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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.


25 posted on 07/19/2013 9:09:14 PM PDT by Kipp
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To: VoiceOfBruck

Reminds me of the DUmmies in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections.


26 posted on 07/19/2013 9:13:46 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

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.


27 posted on 07/19/2013 9:17:09 PM PDT by hsalaw
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To: clintonh8r

Jesse has already hinted at that.


28 posted on 07/19/2013 9:17:29 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (If you vote for evil because you can't see evil, you ARE evil!)
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To: digger48
Missteps = absolutely no evidence of a crime

BINGO

end of story

29 posted on 07/19/2013 9:19:55 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does - by their fruits)
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To: Slings and Arrows

The Prosecuters had no evidence, and a decent, hard working, Peruivan defendant who gave back to his community.


30 posted on 07/19/2013 9:21:18 PM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: Impala64ssa

ahahahaha

Good one


31 posted on 07/19/2013 9:21:52 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does - by their fruits)
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To: Olog-hai

An unfortunate headline.


32 posted on 07/19/2013 9:22:42 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: Steven Tyler

You’d think the “no evidence” thing would stop them. (Naive, I know.)


33 posted on 07/19/2013 9:25:45 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

No, they were just stupid political hacks.


34 posted on 07/19/2013 9:26:18 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: Slings and Arrows

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...”


35 posted on 07/19/2013 9:27:03 PM PDT by Our man in washington (www.jonahdove.com)
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To: null and void

NJCT ping?


36 posted on 07/19/2013 9:28:43 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows; Repeat Offender; GenXteacher; Nervous Tick; BlatherNaut; ColdOne; Marcella; ...

Oh boy. Ping


37 posted on 07/19/2013 9:37:25 PM PDT by MestaMachine (My caps work, You gotta earn them.)
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To: Slings and Arrows
This, FYI, is a common legal tactic, called
The Peruvian Mogambo

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.

38 posted on 07/19/2013 9:41:52 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk (Don't miss this Simmer Blockbuster! "Obama, The Movie." Introducing Reggie Love as "Monica! ")
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To: EEGator

“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”


39 posted on 07/19/2013 9:42:56 PM PDT by reagandemocrat
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To: Slings and Arrows
The “case” never should have been filed!

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?

40 posted on 07/19/2013 9:47:11 PM PDT by sarasmom (The obvious takes longer to discover for the obtuse.)
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