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Old 07-17-2013, 07:19 PM   #1
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Of course it is the way the law works. Not proven guilty!

Since I don't agree or judge black people as the writer claims , I'm actually a little offended by this paragraph.
It is ironic however that you want Zimmerman guilty without sufficient evidence .
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Had the prosecution done their job there was certainly evidence to support a manslaughter charge.
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Old 07-17-2013, 07:30 PM   #2
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Had the prosecution done their job there was certainly evidence to support a manslaughter charge.
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What evidence was that and would it have proved him guilty without a reasonable doubt?

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Old 07-17-2013, 07:42 PM   #3
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What evidence was that and would it have proved him guilty without a reasonable doubt?
The evidence that the police failed to find because they hate black people. Especially teenage ones wearing hoodies.
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The evidence that the police failed to find because they hate black people. Especially teenage ones wearing hoodies.
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Perhaps read the entire article...then again.
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What evidence was that and would it have proved him guilty without a reasonable doubt?
The only evidence presented that he acted in self defense was that he wasn't winning the fight. To assume that alone means he was jumped is absurd, the prosecution simply dropped the ball.

How do they say, he who wins the war gets to write the history?
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Old 07-17-2013, 08:57 PM   #6
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The only evidence presented that he acted in self defense was that he wasn't winning the fight. To assume that alone means he was jumped is absurd, the prosecution simply dropped the ball.

How do they say, he who wins the war gets to write the history?
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is this a drunken rant? because you are making little if any sense
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is this a drunken rant? because you are making little if any sense
Makes perfect sense. Think.
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Makes perfect sense. Think.
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being condescending doesn't help either...you throw up conjecture and suggest things might have gone differently if not for this or that...so wed to your narrative that the actual facts are irrelevant...just like the media and the hustlers....blinded by an overwhelming desire to make this something that it is not

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What evidence was that and would it have proved him guilty without a reasonable doubt?


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The only evidence presented that he acted in self defense was that he wasn't winning the fight. To assume that alone means he was jumped is absurd, the prosecution simply dropped the ball.

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you didn't answer the question
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What evidence was that and would it have proved him guilty without a reasonable doubt?




you didn't answer the question
No you didn't Spence. The fact that the first thing the jury did before
they started deliberation was ask the judge for a copy of all the evidence
which they deliberated on for 16 hours, showed there was not enough evidence to
convict on either of the charges. While the prosecution was reported to hold
back evidence from the defense there is nothing to show the prosecution held
back any of their own evidence.
Oh and BTW, the male alternate juror was interviewed tonight and was in
complete agreement with the jury's decision and stated the prosecution had no evidence.

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Old 07-17-2013, 10:15 PM   #11
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The only evidence presented that he acted in self defense was that he wasn't winning the fight. To assume that alone means he was jumped is absurd, the prosecution simply dropped the ball.

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It used to be that the prosecution had to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty, not that the defendant had to prove that he is innocent.

There was not much actual "evidence" presented by either side other than circumstantial, and that favored the defendant. There was no actual "evidence" available for the prosecution to charge Zimmerman, much less convict him neither of second degree murder or manslaughter.

But we do live in a time of persuasion by opinion. Many opinions have been conjured up about what happened and why--with no connection to actual "evidence." Wild speculations abound about the character of either Zimmerman or Martin. And various scenarios have been created about what happened based on stereotypical characterizations and how these must have determined who did what and why. These opinions mostly depart from analysis by fact and wander into various historical grievances and emotional outrage at perceived injustice. The race industry and the anti-gun and anti-Stand-Your-Ground or other gun rights legislations certainly created another hot-point to attack what they "feel" are inimical to their progressive agenda. Actual facts and law are irrelevant to this case.

This is the method by which we are transformed from a constitutional republic to a centralized bureaucracy. Sacrificing the innocent for the greater good has always been the way of "benevolent" tyrannies.

It is not unlike how the SCOTUS has rewritten the Constitution.
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