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I said this when it came out. She did her job and her duty and I commend her for that. She looked at the evidence. The standard is Guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Think is guilty, might be guilty isn’t good enough to convict.
He is definitely guilty of killing Trayvon Martin—IN SELF DEFENSE, that means he is innocent of murder-—in the eyes of the law.
It's called justifiable homicide and legal.
I would agree. She didn’t let her personal biases distort her view of the law. She did her job. She held the prosecutor to the standard of proof, and ruled as the law required.
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Was this the “impartial juror” who was bused in from Chicago four months before the trial?
But IMO they're just making things worse - rather than change the majority's mind on the verdict they'll just assume B29's comments are more a result of a need to show racial solidarity than a pang of conscious.
Excellent response and entirely correct.
She kept repeating that it's the way the law was written and presented that persuaded her that she had to vote "not guilty". I wish people such as Obama, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Jay Z had even 1/10 of the wisdom she exhibited.
Sorry, but this is an incorrect statement that disregards the full purpose of a jury.
The jury is fully charged to judge, not only the defendendant's guilt or innocence to the charges, but also to judge the law as well as the application of it.
Thus, the principle of jury nullification.
The judges and lawyers might not like it, but it's the duty of juries to judge all aspects of a case between the state and a citizen.
Jury nullification was most widely applied during mid-1800s when people were charged with helping slaves escape. Even when the defendants pleaded guilty, upstanding, moral juries refused to convict them because they rightly felt slavery laws were immoral and should not be enforced.
She’s only an ideal juror as far as the verdict.
She did her job as juror. But going on TV and saying “Zimmerman is guilty” is a horrible use of words that leaves a portion of the public angry at Zimmerman.
The exchange revealed that the jury didn’t feel they proved Zimmerman intentionally killed Martin. But her comments fed the press headlines and hurt public opinion.
It would have been far better that she said he was “Not guilty of intentionally killing Martin”. Or “Not guilt by reason of Self defense”. If she wanted to acknowledge Zimmerman killed Martin she should have left the guilt word out of it.
She’s only an ideal juror as far as the verdict.
She did her job as juror. But going on TV and saying “Zimmerman is guilty” is a horrible use of words that leaves a portion of the public angry at Zimmerman.
The exchange revealed that the jury didn’t feel they proved Zimmerman intentionally killed Martin. But her comments fed the press headlines and hurt public opinion.
It would have been far better that she said he was “Not guilty of intentionally killing Martin”. Or “Not guilt by reason of Self defense”. If she wanted to acknowledge Zimmerman killed Martin she should have left the guilt word out of it.
She is the very model of a modern major juror girl.
This skull full of mush does not know what ‘guilty’ means. He was not charged with killing TM. He never denied that he did that. He was charged with Murder and that is different than Killing. He did not ‘get away with murder’. The verdict was that no murder too place.
I agree with this and I’d take it one step further.
What if this juror did her civic duty and now feels threatened by the mob and his saying “guilty” out of justifiable fear for her own personal security and safety?
....and,black. Wadda ya know?
If a neighborhood watchman can’t follow a strange person to see where they go, then why have a watchman?
O’Mara makes a fair point.
MoM nails it. The media took what the juror said and twisted it to say something she did not intend to say. That should be a lesson to other jurors, that the media, who work for the enemies of the Republic, will do the same to any of them. George did kill Treyvon. It was justifiable homicide. Instead of black people getting the me3ssage that they cannot thoughtlessly assault anyone they want because they can be shot dead for the foolishness, the media is herding balck people to an erroneous conclusion meant to extend their exploitation by evil people like holder, Jackson, Sharpton, and Obama.