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2013-07-13 -Lurid Crime Tales-

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2013-07-13 10:06|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 [judge nelson] directly grilling defendant Zimmerman not once, but three times about his intentions to personally testify while scolding his lawyers not to counsel him in what seemed to many to be an attempt by the court to bully him into taking the stand. Seeing prosecutors losing the case, Nelson jumped into the ring to give them a direct shot at Zimmerman in a last-ditch attempt to make him look guilty in front of the jury.

She obviously received the DoJ memo.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-07-13 10:39|| 2013-07-13 10:39|| Front Page Top

#2 King ~~Louis XV~~ Barak I: We'll give him a fair trial. Then we'll hang him.

Posted by Uncle Phester 2013-07-13 10:54|| 2013-07-13 10:54|| Front Page Top

#3 This was nothing more than a show trial.

Posted by DarthVader 2013-07-13 11:22|| 2013-07-13 11:22|| Front Page Top

#4 That the closing charges were even attempted shows just how vigilante the case is. When the president weighs in on an individual's guilt before the ink is even dry is pretty retarded sir. Even had people with guilty already decided trying to lie their way into staying on the jury.

Posted by swksvolFF 2013-07-13 11:39|| 2013-07-13 11:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Andrew Mccarthy of PJMedia suggests a guilty verdict would be a no-brainer for reversal.

Posted by trailing wife 2013-07-13 12:34|| 2013-07-13 12:34|| Front Page Top

#6 Instapundit says an acquittal will help to get out the "African-American"* vote in 2014.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-07-13 12:38|| 2013-07-13 12:38|| Front Page Top

#7 *Whenever I hear the term, I think of a woman I used to know --- an Afrikaans girl who become a naturalized American.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-07-13 12:41|| 2013-07-13 12:41|| Front Page Top

#8 g(r) - reminds me of the time when Charlize Theron hosted Saturday Night Live, and Tracy Morgan kept hitting on her because she was African-American.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2013-07-13 14:17|| 2013-07-13 14:17|| Front Page Top

#9 Is Dave Matthews an African-American?

Posted by Eric Jablow 2013-07-13 14:24|| 2013-07-13 14:24|| Front Page Top

#10 grom - isn't Kerry's wife African-American? IIRC she was of white African birth.

Posted by Glenmore 2013-07-13 15:50|| 2013-07-13 15:50|| Front Page Top

#11 an Afrikaans girl who become a naturalized American. Posted by g(r)omgoru

She would be South African-American. Most white South Africans reject the notion of South Africa being party of 'Africa'. Think of it as being from Canada or Texas vs "The Americas" if you will. There are other, less subtle reasons which probably should not be discussed here.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-07-13 16:20|| 2013-07-13 16:20|| Front Page Top

#12 I disagree with both the author and the judge. Trayvon Martin's history should not have been introduced, but for a completely different reason than the judge stated. The first duty of the jury is to determine whether George Zimmerman feared for his life or great bodily harm at the time he fired his weapon. If George Zimmerman did not know Martin's history it did not influence Zimmmerman's state of mind prior to his making the decision to shoot Marten. The Florida statutes are very explicit about that and the judge should have just cited the statutes instead of the unjustified BS she came up with. Pounding another persons head on the ground is felony assault. If the jury beleives Zimmerman comitted no crime prior to the fight, and if they beleive Zimmerman feared for his life, before he pulled the trigger, anything that happened prior to the fight is irrelevant.

The fact that the jurors have questions regarding manslaughter is just further proof of the fiasco the judge has turned this case into.

If the jurrors did not know that they could be asked to deliberate on manslaughter, BEFORE they heard testimony, a mistrial needs to be called immediatly.

Posted by junkiron 2013-07-13 20:54|| 2013-07-13 20:54|| Front Page Top

#13 Not Guilty!

Posted by Frank G 2013-07-13 22:18|| 2013-07-13 22:18|| Front Page Top

#14 how soon before the riots start?

Posted by USN. Ret. 2013-07-13 23:04|| 2013-07-13 23:04|| Front Page Top

#15 Here you go, fellow voyeurs....

Posted by Uncle Phester 2013-07-13 23:09|| 2013-07-13 23:09|| Front Page Top

#16 I think the verdict might have been different if the prosecution had gone for involuntary manslaughter.

Posted by European Conservative 2013-07-13 23:22|| 2013-07-13 23:22|| Front Page Top

#17 I'm surprised. Even the judge tried to make him look as guilty as possible.

Good on the women jury.

Posted by DarthVader 2013-07-13 23:35|| 2013-07-13 23:35|| Front Page Top

#18 The family is accepting the verdict but the NAACP is already starting to fight it

Posted by Jan 2013-07-13 23:54|| 2013-07-13 23:54|| Front Page Top

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