So let me get this straight
The prosecution’s case against Zimmerman is based on:
A portly 30 year old outran and tackled a 17 year old
A witness who knows what wet grass sounds like
And a letter supposedly written by someone who can’t even read it
OK, then.
June 27th, 2013 at 2:51 pm
Crazy ass crackers.
June 27th, 2013 at 2:51 pm
Hmm…linky no worky.
Try again
June 27th, 2013 at 3:09 pm
Yeah, and this portly older dude outran a 17 year old black kid who, IIRC, was a wide receiver….. yeah… right.
June 27th, 2013 at 3:14 pm
sorry, there was one adult in the situation, one guy with a gun, and one guy with the police on the phone. not sure about 2nd Degree Murder, but the dude should go to jail.
June 27th, 2013 at 3:28 pm
Huh?
For what crime, exactly. FL statutes are online, if there’s one that fits your take of the actual evidence and testimony you should be able to find one easily enough You don’t send people to jail “just because.”
June 27th, 2013 at 3:33 pm
I’m curious as to how Zimmerman supposedly ran down a person when he didn’t know where Martin had gone. In the dark, while it was pouring rain.
June 27th, 2013 at 3:38 pm
What about the histrionic witness that heard three gunshots. Probably coming from the wet grassy knoll.
June 27th, 2013 at 3:56 pm
You forgot the part about the illiterate girl who does not think that cracker is a racial slur.
June 27th, 2013 at 4:19 pm
And you forgot the other witness that heard several shots…three or so.
June 27th, 2013 at 4:24 pm
Open and Closed Case in the Courts of our Constitutional Democratic Republic.
Innuendo as evidence and eye-witnesses who did not see anyhting in the dark.
The State has the burden of proof. So far, it appears that they have no evidence.
Prediction: Win for the Defense, followed by cities in flames and mass protests.
June 27th, 2013 at 4:46 pm
Here’s what he’s charged with. Murder 2nd
“The unlawful killing of a human being, when perpetrated by any act imminently dangerous to another and evincing a depraved mind regardless of human life, although without any premeditated design to effect the death of any particular individual, is murder in the second degree and constitutes a felony of the first degree, punishable by imprisonment for a term of years not exceeding life or as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.”
The State is going to have one hell of time proving that “beyond a reasonable doubt.” There’s a TON of reasonable doubt in this case.
June 27th, 2013 at 4:53 pm
http://legalinsurrection.com/ has a lawyer in the courtroom tweeting updates.
2 of the prosecution’s witnesses have significantly changed their testimony on the stand. And defense was apparently able to tie both examples directly to the interference of prosecutors.
The witness that can’t read? The prosecutor took her deposition while making her sit right next to Trayvon Martin’s mom.
Since election-year politics is why this case was mishandled from the start, the prosecution can’t be blind to what they are doing. So are they just trying to save face and hope for a reverse-OJ Simpson jury result? Or are they banking on the turmoil that will result after an acquittal to help their identity-politics agenda?
June 27th, 2013 at 5:15 pm
mikew: Correct. Why they didn’t go for manslaughter I don’t know. The people on the prosecution want their names in the papers more I guess.
They might have been able to get manslaughter because he chose to follow and that decision eventually led to the shooting. If you walk into a biker bar and start throwing fists, someone’s about to kill you and you shoot them, you’re still at SOME fault here. But it’s going to be near impossible to get Murder2 and I think they must have known that. Some serious gaming the jury if they are able to suggest there is no reasonable doubt.
June 27th, 2013 at 5:30 pm
This case is being decided by six women.
In Florida.
I predict conviction, regardless of the evidence.
June 27th, 2013 at 5:35 pm
If the jury members have anything incriminating in their IRS or NSA files, they will receive “friendly advice” that they vote to convict the “evil NRA gun-nut”.
June 27th, 2013 at 5:39 pm
Sadly, mariner is probably correct.
June 27th, 2013 at 7:12 pm
Are you serious in that analogy? Following someone is not aggression and is not remotely the same as walking in to a biker bar and throwing punches. I haven’t read any evidence that stated that Zimmerman followed Martin and threw a punch at him.
I don’t think it is. Or rather I don’t pretend that it bothers me.
June 27th, 2013 at 10:33 pm
As far as the witness that claims to have heard multiple shots, I would say that since she was at the end of a “corridor” of buildings in the development, that she might have heard the original shot followed very quickly by an echo of the report off the building at other end of the corridor. It’s possible that the sound may have echoed more than once.
June 28th, 2013 at 12:12 am
A portly 30 year old outran and tackled a 17 year old
He was 28 at the time and not nearly as chubby.
June 28th, 2013 at 10:11 am
Zimmerman disregarded one of the basic rules of life: mind your own business. Now it’s coming back at him.
June 28th, 2013 at 10:59 am
“He was 28 at the time and not nearly as chubby.”
And still wouldn’t have had a prayer of catching up to a 17 yr old former wide receiver who had a good 30 second head start on him.
June 28th, 2013 at 11:22 am
I loved the part where in a court of law you cannot bring up a defendants past criminal history even for the purpose of showing character, but you can try to bring up the past phone calls to police made by a citizen who has never committed a high crime in the attempt to show character. Sounds kinda bass-ackwards to me.
June 28th, 2013 at 1:20 pm
tincankilla,
Age does not matter when they sucker punchy you, straddle you, slam your head against the pavement.
Martin was old enough to kill Zimmerman, and he tried.
Zimmerman’s only ‘crime’ was trying to find out why a person was sneaking around the neighborhood. And as shown by the testimony, Martin sought out Zimmerman, not the other way.
June 28th, 2013 at 2:50 pm
I am hoping for an acquital.
This wouldn’t have been brought to the Grand Jury in East Tn, because our DA, who is actually a liberal Democrat, prosecutes perps – not victims.
June 28th, 2013 at 11:02 pm
Unsurprisingly, the dry by media are playing it up so as to make it a shock when he’s acquitted. I guess they want a summer race riot to prop up the ratings.
June 30th, 2013 at 7:11 am
Just take the damn idiots CCW away and be done with it.
With stand your ground pretty much it’s a no brainer the outcome. If you fear , you can shoot !
He did break the rules of engagement by pursuing TM.
Just the kinda wanna be that give us all a bad rep.
Not to mention he used all that donated cash to get fat lol