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Justice was done. The case is over. When is NJ going to prosecute the other black teen who killed autumn Pasquale?
Though they were both underage, they were both prosecuted as adults. One kid, the one who killed her, is doing 17 years. His brother was released after it was determined that he was not responsible.
Only difference is the kid who killed Autumn is paying for what he did, and Zimmerman is not. Why did you bring up the Pasquale case? Justice was done. The case is over.
No I don't think I do. The mainstream media immediately went out on full force against Zimmerman and lied about his ethnicity, simply because they were trying to turn it into a racist thing even though it wasn't. If this had been about a black guy killing a white kid the media would have never said anything. And people bought into it because they are actually racists themselves, they immediately jumped to pre-conceived racial biases and instantly assumed Zimmerman was a racist and guilty even though they never saw the evidence. And that's the problem in all this, people don't care about the truth or what the evidence shows, they are going to deny it and continue believing that Zimmerman was a white supremacist because it reaffirms their already held racial biases and convictions that they carry.
Really this whole thing was a media circus act to try and take attention away from the Snowden trials that were happening at this same time, he blew the Whistle on Obama's NSA Domestic Spying Program and then boom, Zimmerman pops up all over the news just by coincidence. I don't think it was a coincidence, I think the media was trying to cover up Obama's mistakes just like they tried with Benghazi and then the recent VA Scandal with the Bergdahl Exchange.
Um...I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure the outcome of his trial was that the state failed to prove its case. He was found "not guilty," not "innocent." There's a difference.
In our culture, lies are given as much credence as physical facts.
Well, from various groups, including the defense, there was:
1:" He must have been making a drug.";
2: "He had smoked weed, he must have been angry and paranoid (about the stranger who was chasing him for no reason)";
3: "Look at how big he is, he's a big, raging negro!";
4: "He was looking around, so he must have been casing houses!";
5: "Obviously, he was so angry that he ran away to set up a trap...for the guy that he had no reason to think would leave his car. Oh, and Rachel Jeantel was in on it!"
6: "Look at his Twitter feed! Teenage boys never use curse words unless they're thugs!"
7: "Well, he said 'creepy cracker', so he must have been the violent racist!"
8: " He said "You gon' die tonight!'"
9: "Well, of course a black kid covering his head in the rain is suspicious, there were some burgleries beforehand. It's not racist to assume that a random black kid is casing homes because there were some burglaries!" (BTW, yes, that's obviously racist)
10: "He owned a cheap pair of gold fronts!"
11: "Martin was a thug/playing the knockout game/wanted to kill Zimmerman because he somehow knew Zimmerman was talking to police."
ETA: 12 "Martin must have bought drugs that were never found on him or in his bloodstream, from three guys that we have no evidence he ever spoke to."
The vast majority of that was never used by the defense.
Um...I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure the outcome of his trial was that the state failed to prove its case. He was found "not guilty," not "innocent." There's a difference.
Lies are negative or passive evidence that can be used against you by a jury.
Jurors are, after all, triers of fact.
No one instructed the jury on this.
Last edited by Hyperthetic; 06-14-2014 at 12:58 PM..
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