That does not mean that the survivor broke the law.
I’d like to know WHO the “Lead homicide investigator” is....and also since when does someone retreating to their vehicle turn them into a candidate for committing manslaughter?
News says that Florida’s State Attorney said that Zimmerman could not be arrested because of the Stand Your Ground law— Zimmerman said at the site that he was in fear of his life and protecting himself. The witnesses on hand corroborated what Zimmerman said about events. [I just got this from my favorite not impartial network— HLN.]
Poor Nancy Grace just disagrees with it all and knows how things should have been done. It’s all “bass-ackwards.”
The enemedia is having trouble making the Sanford Police Dept. look bad.
The survivor used incredibly poor judgement that led to an unnecessary death. Sounds like manslaughter to me.
The usual democrat party political lynching of an innocent man.
From the KKK to Media Matters, always the same evil democrat party criminals.
I read the law the prosecutor tried to use. It did not apply in this case because Zimmerman was protecting himself, and did not shoot the boy while he was committing a property crime.
The man next to me at a counter talked some about felonies committed when the NBPP offered their bounty for the “capture” of George Zimmerman. He closed by adding, “We oughta put a two dollar bounty on *them*!” I declined involvement, but then asked, “Why so small?” He stared at me for the whole minute or more it took me to factor in the value of the quarry, which is key to setting a bounty.
I don’t think this means he broke the law. This would be negligent homicide or involuntary manslaughter, which means that he hadn’t intended this to happen, but that there was an involuntary situation in which he was involved that resulted in the death of another person at his hands but which might not have done so without a prior action by him (being armed).
I think what will probably happen is that the family, which is busy trademarking their kid’s name, just wants the money and they will probably sue the HOA. Zimmerman shouldn’t have been armed at that time, since the duties of neighborhood watch people are just to identify something suspicious and call the police. This is a liability issue for the HOA or for whatever group had Zimmerman as a volunteer.
The problem is that the mob that is howling for Zimmerman’s blood is not going to be satisfied with anything less than homicide charges, preferably capital. And the other problem is that US justice has a long tradition of cowering in the face of pressure groups. Look at Rodney King, where they tried him until they got the verdict the pressure groups wanted (not guilty) or some of the many police trials where officers have been tried time and again on various charges (all of them different enough from the first one to avoid double jeopardy) until the guilty verdict desired by “the community” is produced.
This is not going to be pretty.
And a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich... what else is new?
SANFORD, FL – MARCH 27, 2012 – The City of Sanford wishes to clarify a statement made at today’s press conference related to the police report on the Trayvon Martin case. A reporter stated that based on the description of the incident on the report, that the officer on scene wished to have Mr. Zimmerman arrested and charged with the “Uniform Crime Code” listed on the report. That is not accurate.All police reports from all law enforcement agencies require a “Uniform Crime Code” to qualify an incident and for statistical purposes for tracking types of incidents. This code does not indicate a formal charge that will be lodged against an alleged offender. It is used for internal processing and to type cases.