If she lowers the charge, she opens herself up to a conspiracy charge from The People. It shows that The Man is pulling her strings and this was just a show trial. It could set off the riot.
An innocent 12 year old boy was gunned down by a white racist vigilante. That’s what people are thinking. And the government wants to go easy on him? No justice, no peace. Long hot summer.
Every single commentator that I've heard knows that the prosecution failed. They lament it, bemoan it, agonize at the injustice of it, etc., but they acknowledge it. Liz Wiehl on Imus this morning (Imus and Liz are idiots) declared that there's no doubt that Zimmerman caused the event, but that he'd be acquitted because the evidence is on his side. I would love to see the evidence she's using to show "he caused it." It doesn't exist. If his "causing it" is SO FLIPPIN' OBVIOUS, then he'd be convicted. And Imus was cheering in the background because he's afraid of them "nappy headed words" of his years ago.