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07-14-2013, 05:51 AM | #1 |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member | Zimmerman acquitted Zimmerman was found not guilty. Jury asked about manslaughter but was set free.
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07-14-2013, 06:08 AM | #2 |
Furbutts = LOVE Donating Member Moderator | Was manslaughter one of their options on the table? Or was 2nd degree the only option? I thought he'd get manslaughter, for sure. Although, someone was telling me that in FL, the sentencing for manslaughter is worse than it is for 2nd degree...which makes no sense.
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07-14-2013, 07:08 AM | #4 |
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| The news here said that the jury was advised that they could also consider manslaughter, even though it wasn't on the list of charges brought against him.
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07-14-2013, 08:20 AM | #5 |
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| Sometime late yesterday afternoon, the jury came back and asked for clarification regarding manslaughter laws, so it looks like they did consider it.
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07-14-2013, 08:28 AM | #6 |
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| I am disgusted beyond belief by this so-called "justice" system.
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07-14-2013, 08:54 AM | #7 |
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| [quote=KazzyK810;4269616]I am disgusted beyond belief by this so-called "justice" system. DITTO!
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07-14-2013, 09:03 AM | #8 |
Furbutts = LOVE Donating Member Moderator | Interesting, thank you for posting this...I thought it had to untrue bc it just wasn't making any sense to me!
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07-14-2013, 09:05 AM | #9 |
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| I listen to the verdict on CNN last night - sounds like the jury just did not have enough evidence to convict because there were no witnesses.
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07-14-2013, 10:21 AM | #10 |
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| Mind boggling...all of it. Zimmerman will have no life now and quite frankly I don't believe he deserves one. He stalked that kid (with a gun on his person) and killed him. He disregarded the 911 operator who told him not to follow that kid. He DID profile...that was so clear in his words. We have the best criminal justice system in the world, but it is not perfect. I hope that this case makes people re-evaluate these insane laws that have been created to protect murderers. We have the same thing here in Texas. I get that people have a right to defend themselves, but the point is that Zimmerman would not have had to "defend himself" if he had not been stalking that kid. But...case closed...the jury has spoken. Rest in Peace Trayvon
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07-14-2013, 11:59 AM | #11 |
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| If you watched the video of Zimmerman saying how it went he didn't continue to follow Trayvon he was looking for a street sign and address to tell the operator and had no idea where Trayvon had gone. The teen had drugs in his system and had a history of drugs so he could have honestly been up to no good. I mean who walks around in the rain to the store and then just casually stands in a neighborhood that is not his just looking around in the rain. I think maybe both Trayvon and Zimmerman did wrong things. I think if he had wanted to just kill him he would have not called the police and not talked to the police with out a lawyer. I think this whole thing got out of control and people wanted to blame it on a black vs. white thing when he is not even white. I am happy with the outcome I do not think it was murder and I do not think there was enough evidence to prove it was.
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07-14-2013, 12:24 PM | #12 |
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| I didn't watch the trial itself but coverage in the evenings at times. More and more it seems like juries these days in very high-profile criminal cases do require a CSI-like rock-solid type proof beyond a reasonable doubt before they are willing to convict and many of the more respected lawyers without an agenda didn't seem to think the State had a very strong case or evidence that couldn't be interpreted either way. A lot of them and even TV news reporters said the prosecution witnesses seemed to be testifying for the defense at times and I did see some of their re-run bits of testimony and it did seem that way sometimes. Still, I was surprised at acquittal. I'd thought the jury might have gone for manslaughter just based on all the media and social pressure.
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07-14-2013, 12:34 PM | #13 |
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| This is a hot topic....I have been attacked by a "child" that was also in a black hoodie, at night, IN MY YARD.....I KNOW that fear!!...I WISH Zimmerman would have been there to help ME. The "child" that jumped me is lucky I was just coming from my garage and did not have my weapon on me, or he too would have been shot. Where is all the uproar for all the actually innocent kids that are killed in their OWN yards, playing in the parks, sleeping in their beds, sitting on the streets in front of their homes, up in Detroit? Thank God the law actually does protect people that are attacked, and assaulted and battered, and NOT just people of color, but also "white" people....Zimmerman broke NO law....he is "hired" to patrol the neighborhood as a member of a neighborhood watch program....he did NOTHING illegal. I hope all the history that surrounds this "child" now comes out...he is NOT the sweet little innocent "child" he has been portrayed to be. He has a history! He may not have been selling dope, or smoking dope, or brandishing his own gun, or fencing stolen booty gained from break ins, or actually breaking into houses at the moment he was seen by Zimmerman, but this is not an innocent little "child". All the kids being killed on our streets, on a daily basis, caught in cross fire by gang bangers....those are the ones people should be all in a knot over. |
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Bottom line is it is over..the jury has spoken. Each of us has an opinion, but it matters not. The poor kid did not deserve to die because he *maybe* broke a nose. My son was jumped one night many many years ago...had he killed the people who did it, I would have been horrified, and he looked a whole heck of a lot worse than Zimmerman. I am not a huge gun advocate for just this reason...too easy for people if you ask me. I hope that the laws are changed and made more clear. Tragic.
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