The George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin Travesty

[Silcc69]

I just fell on this one...

Black folks don't have 2nd amendment rights.

[DCGuy343]

Black folks don't have 2nd amendment rights.

Black people are also not treated the same as others.

[Quiet Reflections]

the really messed up thing is no matter whether he is guilty or not the only people that will care about this case next week will be the ones trying to sell something. That is just the world we live in.

[robertlouis]

Only in America would hispanic be described as a race.

I know hundreds of Spanish people, most of them white.

[robertlouis]

Wasn't the problem that the prosecutor went for murder when manslaughter/culpable homicide would have been a safer bet?

US prosecutors are elected and so look to pander to their electorate, but this isn't the case in the UK or Scotland, for example.

Excellent point. And in Scotland there is still recourse to the not proven verdict as well, which would have been appropriate in this case.

[youngblood61]

me too as well...not the least bit
...the operative key words here are Travesty and Florida...the 2 seem to go hand in hand....from the recount fiasco in 2000 to the current governor w/ his voter suppression and anti abortion BS and everything in between....I called it from the git go

100%!

[notdrunk]

Black folks don't have 2nd amendment rights.

Actually, you need to learn some basics about Florida's stand-your-ground law. In Florida, you can claim self-defense and/or immunity under the stand-your-ground law. Zimmerman's lawyer(s) argued that he should be found not guilty because he was defending himself from an attack. They didn't claim that his self-defense falls under their state's stand-your-ground law. Under Florida's stand-your-ground law, the statute grants a defendant immunity from criminal prosecution. During a pretrial hearing, a Judge decides if the defendant is granted immunity. Zimmerman waived that hearing. The trial was about plain o' self-defense.

Marissa was sentenced to 20 years because the shooting didn't fall under the stand-your-ground law and she had a crappy lawyer. She left to get a firearm to fire those warning shots. Under the law, she wasn't in imminent danger because she left the threat.

[bluesoul]

You've contracted yourself in the bold print.

do you mean contradicted?

also, i disagree with your series of events. that's not what was presented in court, which might be the reason you think zimmerman is guilty

[buttslinger]

WOO HOO! About to put the law degree to some use.
So regardless of what you think of the outcome, the truth is that the Court, the Jury, and the legal system worked exactly as it should, and this is the correct outcome, despite the tragic and senseless loss of life that could have been prevented had two cooler heads prevailed, and things didn't spiral out of control.

If Zimmerman had been found guilty by the jury, then the system would have worked just as well.

[dderek123]

WOO HOO! About to put the law degree to some use.

Wicked post man.