George Zimmerman better sue the CRAP outta a whole lotta people!
Perhaps we should try Trayvon Martin for attempted murder. Who cares if he’s dead. He doesn’t have to take the stand.
Now where have I heard that phrase before....Maybe it was outside an abortion clinic??
LOL!!! Ludicrous. Thugs Obama, Holder, TM and all.
Rat face Holder should be deported!
Putin should offer him asylum in Russia.
Couple of thoughts:
obama and holder can sue for civil rights violation. And then the next president can just let it go away (like obama did with the black panther polling station lawsuit).
Zimmerman might get a civil lawsuit from the family of Trayvon Martin. Civil lawsuits are much different than criminal. It has a much lower threshold for guilt. Zimmerman will have to take the stand. HOWEVER, the thug life of TM will be dug and put on the stand. It will not be pretty and there is a good chance TM family does not want to go through that (as the DA in the criminal case made TM look like a 14 year angel just eating some skittles)
Zimmerman is going to sue quite a few news organizations for their blatant prevision of the news. They will settle rather than be dragged out into the sunshine to show bias and deceit. Zimmerman will be a rich man.
He needs to write a book, change his name and move somewhere else.
For Zimmerman to be charged by the feds for violating Trayvon Martin’s civil rights, wouldn’t he have had to be acting under color of authority? The police officers in the Rodney King federal charged were able to be charged with violating King’s right because they were acting under color of authority. There is nothing like that here.
Exactly! So far I haven't seen anyone else suggest this.
Who could make a valid case that his civil rights have been violated? I think it's obvious it's George Zimmerman --not the Martin family-- who have a legitimate civil rights case, under federal law.
From what I've read, there are only two paths that lead to a federal civil rights case:
(1) the path of showing that officials "under the color of legal authority" violated a citizen's rights; or
(2) the path of showing that a "bias crime" has been committed against a citizen.
George Zimmerman would have an excellent chance of meeting the first standard, I would think -- because George was arrested without probable cause and because Angela Corey maliciously prosecuted him, under color of legal authority.
The Martin family would have no basis for such a claim, nor can they claim that George committed a bias crime (the FBI already investigated and exonerated him of that phony charge a year ago).
The injustice Department can not indict Z for anything. And Congress should make that clear. As for the NAACP they would do better to insist that black parents marry and raise their children free from the thugocracy.
I don't remember the case but there was a man who was/or felt he had been defamed by a newspaper.
He started at the very top (I think the newspapers owner or something - a high up with $$$.) He kept pressing law suits and kept winning as he went down the line.
I think he sued the paperboy who delivered his newspaper each day.
I think that was the end of the lawsuits. I think the jury was offended and the man's lawyer correctly read the jury and told his client "drop the suit".
"Loser Pays".
We have a term for when someone's "right to life" is violated. It's called "murder." We just had a "murder trial" whereby Zimmerman was found "not guilty." The Fifth Amendment of a little document called The Constitution of the United States explicitly prohibits individuals from being tried twice from the same crime. We don't lay aside Constitutional protections just because a bunch of idiots decide to sign a petition.
I swear, it's like the left isn't even trying to pretend that it's keeping up anymore.
An element of a civil rights prosecution is that the deprivation is caused by an actor who is taking state action under color of authority; i.e., police officers. It has been used against other than law enforcement officers but must always involve some sort of state action. The DOJ may be considering just ignoring the state action requirement and hope the case is heard by a liberal judge who doesn’t care what the law is, or maybe trying to argue that Block Watch is the functional equivalent of a police department. The latter would probably put an end to Block Watch programs altogether. It would depend on how close the local program is tied to the local police department, such as using police facilities for meetings or any nexus that would connect them. Legally, it’s more than thin, but since we no longer enjoy the rule of law, the politics could prevail.
Don’t be distracted. The Federal government is going to use sleight of hand, to keep our attention focussed on riots and demonstrations like the ones in Oakland, San Francisco and elsewhere, to try and give Boehner and Cantor breathing room to force amnesty for illegal aliens down our throats. DON’T LET THEM DO THIS!!