George Zimmerman Charged With Second-Degree Murder: Fair or Foul?
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2012/04/12 13:00:00
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It took prosecutors a month and a half to charge George Zimmerman in the shooting of Trayvon Martin, but Florida special prosecutor Angela Corey announced the charge on Wednesday, just days after dismissing the grand jury. He's being charged with second-degree murder, and could face life in prison. This doesn't mean he's guilty, but it does mean he's in prison for the time being.
Zimmerman arrived at the Polk Correctional Facility in Florida Wednesday night after the 28-year-old surrendered to law enforcement. Lawyers on both sides of the case anticipate a long and arduous trial. Zimmerman's new lawyers says he is "not concerned about [Zimmerman's] mental well-being" and expects "justice in the end." Martin's mother just wants to "ask him if there were another way that he could have settled the confrontation." Do you think the charges against George Zimmerman sound fair -- or foul?
Zimmerman arrived at the Polk Correctional Facility in Florida Wednesday night after the 28-year-old surrendered to law enforcement. Lawyers on both sides of the case anticipate a long and arduous trial. Zimmerman's new lawyers says he is "not concerned about [Zimmerman's] mental well-being" and expects "justice in the end." Martin's mother just wants to "ask him if there were another way that he could have settled the confrontation." Do you think the charges against George Zimmerman sound fair -- or foul?
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+66Prosecutor will have to get all twelve jurors to vote to convict to get this silly murder charge upheld. She knows that is hopeless. The charge carries some lesser homicide charges as "included lesser charges" (like manslaughter) which they can compromise on. The hope would be that by asking for murder 2, they can get Zimmerman to agree to accept something like negligent homicide. If he does, he is being gullible, for they can never get twelve Floridians to agree he is culpable. Even if they get an all black jury, getting twelve of us to agree he did not have the right to defend himself just because his attacker is black would be very unlikely. Too many of us have had family or friends who have been attacked by young men like Trayvon. Having worked with victims of abuse for many years, my sympathy for the victim of the attack (Zimmerman) far outweighs my identification as a Florida black.
Tx for explaining.
I don't give a rat's ass of Martin was a cocky as hell, he wasn't doing a damn thing wrong and was guned down by what appears to be a mental case. Zimmerman is not the angel you try to paint. He had at least two serious run ins with the law both for violent assault and he has a shaved head, ergo, a skin-head, on the prowl with a gun looking for a reason to shoot somebody.
Would you that certain if Martin was white and the watch captain black? I doubt it, Mr/Ms racist.
With the "president" dedicated to surgically changing the "living organism" aka constitution, your rewference to “hundreds years” makes no sense. Or maybe you know about Mr. Holder’s public reaction to the open theats the Panthers keep making?
1. The blacks in the US were treated badly, but contrary to what some might imply, they didn't leave freedom in Africa - they were merely sold by African slave owners to American slave owners. Are you going to deny that?
2. How the facts of the bad past would justify the "AG"'s cover up?
3. Don't you realize that by allowing the Panthers to terrorize, because once it was allowed KKK, is going to spark the conflict when you, the blacks, are going to pay higher price than the "whities"?
4. Holocaust was not just about the largest number of murdered innocent people per a short period of time - it is about purposeful, institutionalized elimination. It was one of national priorities, kind of ritual murder. Was it the national priority to reduce or even nulify the slaves' population in the US? If you did not get it, how can you call for sensitivity when it comes to your pains? I am not saying you should feel more sorrow about Jewish suffering than grievances "your people" had, just think a little, before making your statements. Not to mention, blacks were as "inferior race" for Hitler as Jews - he claimed Jews were masked Negroes. He just didn't have enough blacks under his power at the time to initiate the other Holocaust against them.
What I find funny is that you’re trying to justify slavery to An Africa American, now that’s laughable. What the Jaws went though was terrible they lost their homes, the lives and their family, wait we lost our home, our lives (Millions) our history. I’m not comparing the two because neither should have happen and you’re right warring tribes sold their captured rival tribe however more were stolen from their homeland then sold. Africa sold their enemy but a civil war had to be proclaim because it was more profitable to keep slaves than to set them free, take a real good look at our complexion and you’ll understand the added benefits of keeping slaves for over 300yrs. As I understand history other counties freely gave up the business of slavery before the United States. You’re the one that should think about statements because the United State and other countries went out of their way to help the Jewish people find their relative. Did you know in some circle an African American is called a mutt? Did you know most Black people can’t go pass the 1900, hundreds when it comes to ancestry? In my own family I can’t go pass 1933, there are no records of our families; we were property, just like a ...
What I find funny is that you’re trying to justify slavery to An Africa American, now that’s laughable. What the Jaws went though was terrible they lost their homes, the lives and their family, wait we lost our home, our lives (Millions) our history. I’m not comparing the two because neither should have happen and you’re right warring tribes sold their captured rival tribe however more were stolen from their homeland then sold. Africa sold their enemy but a civil war had to be proclaim because it was more profitable to keep slaves than to set them free, take a real good look at our complexion and you’ll understand the added benefits of keeping slaves for over 300yrs. As I understand history other counties freely gave up the business of slavery before the United States. You’re the one that should think about statements because the United State and other countries went out of their way to help the Jewish people find their relative. Did you know in some circle an African American is called a mutt? Did you know most Black people can’t go pass the 1900, hundreds when it comes to ancestry? In my own family I can’t go pass 1933, there are no records of our families; we were property, just like a mule or a house only there was record on the ladder two. I can’t tell my daughter about her great, great anyone. And you want to give me a reason not to remember that I don’t know my real last name. I know about your history but do you know of mine. You’re the one that needs sensitivity training.
Bye
To me, covering up for the Panthers is racism. Obviously, you have excuses for the "AG".
Sir they were still hanging blacks in the 60's, Remember Mr. Bell who had a chain put around his neck a drag behind a truck, I think that was in the 80's.
How about the Islamo-Nazis cutting the head of Richard Perl, merelly because he was a Jew? What was the reaction of the phony "civil rights" talkers?
and you are dodging my questions about the "AG"'s consistent cover up.
This is bye sir because I can tell you feel whatever is done or has been done to black people is alright with you. This is my last post to you because once a bigot always a bigot. You reconize every nationality that has been wronge but the one that was done in this country.
Any time you need my help as a friend, not as a guity debitor, though, I am ready.
AS for "murder" - you are a very good illustration how you, "liberals", neglect the law and due process, if you are helping your nothing candidates to get re-elected.
Second degree contains all the lesser charges, so there's room for both sides to maneuver. Lawyers like to maneuver. :)