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Dershowitz: Prosecutor Should Drop Charges Against Zimmerman
The New American ^ | 23 May, 2012 | R. Cort Kirkwood

Posted on 05/24/2012 8:51:56 AM PDT by marktwain

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Overcharging is a common procedure for prosecutors. It is unethical. We need to find a way to hold prosecutors to account for this sort of thing.
1 posted on 05/24/2012 8:52:06 AM PDT by marktwain
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Aha! Yeah, that’ll go over well, dropping the charges.

Nope, the DA has screwed herself, big time!

2 posted on 05/24/2012 8:53:49 AM PDT by ryan71
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Too late now. She hoped to play this big time in front of the drooling cameras. The media will need a scapegoat for their own stupid reporting—and she’s it.

Never mind that the media lied before she did. They control the news.

She probably hoped to play this into a future governorship. Forget it, stupid.


3 posted on 05/24/2012 8:58:18 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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Is it time for Corey to be examined on ethics charges?


4 posted on 05/24/2012 9:00:21 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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"Overcharging is a common procedure for prosecutors."

How correct you are.

I sat in court with my grandson as all the cases were being handled. Not realizing it at the time the Judge wanted every case out of the way so the court room was empty except for me and my grandson. The Judge then proceeded to chew the prosecutor out for overcharging the case. My grandson's defense lawyer said to the Judge I can see now why you put us off to the very last.

5 posted on 05/24/2012 9:14:36 AM PDT by Spunky
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they’ll just refile it as “manslaughter”


6 posted on 05/24/2012 9:15:37 AM PDT by stylin19a (Obama - The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance)
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Dershowitz: Prosecutor Should Drop Charges Against Zimmerman

...and face disciplinary action up to and including loss of her job and possibly her license.

7 posted on 05/24/2012 9:20:04 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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I want Sham-ton sued. Dropping charges isn’t enough... Panthers need to be investigated for witness tampering...


8 posted on 05/24/2012 9:20:27 AM PDT by GOPJ ( "A Dog In Every Pot" - freeper ETL)
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Dersh IS a leftist and a sly dog (I mean K-9)He knows if Zim walks, Fl-Dah burns, and Obie gets re-elected. Zim kinda started this whole thing , brought this on himself, he will pay some dues for it...sometime next year after the election. Maybe the Fl-Dah guv is a sly-er dog.
9 posted on 05/24/2012 9:26:46 AM PDT by Calusa (The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handles. Quoth Bob Dylan.)
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...Corey said her job was to get “justice for Trayvon Martin” but not for George Zimmerman. That, Dershowitz wrote, is not a prosecutor’s job. Nor he wrote, is her job to get a conviction to avoid racial troubles that might arise should Zimmerman go free...

Are you sick of our 'law enforcement people' cowering in front of threats of black violence? Dershowitz is calling this one from a bastion of liberal group think - that takes courage. Thanks Dershowitz...

10 posted on 05/24/2012 9:27:03 AM PDT by GOPJ ( "A Dog In Every Pot" - freeper ETL)
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“There is, of course, no assurance that the special prosecutor handling the case, State Attorney Angela Corey, will do the right thing. Because until now, her actions have been anything but ethical, lawful and professional.”

Did State AG “Inherit the wind”, as did Barrack, Al and Jesse?
Proverbs 11:29, He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.


11 posted on 05/24/2012 9:39:57 AM PDT by GOYAKLA (Recall/ Impeachment Day, November 6, 2012. FUBO, same for RINOs)
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they’ll just refile it as “manslaughter”

That depends upon whether or not the judge dismisses "with prejudice". Since any manslaughter charge would be based on the same act, with the same set of facts as the original charge, that would result in him being prosecuted twice for substantially the same crime. If the charge is dismissed with prejudice, filing again under manslaughter would violate the prohibition against double jeopardy.

12 posted on 05/24/2012 9:42:42 AM PDT by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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“Are you sick of our ‘law enforcement people’ cowering in front of threats of black violence? Dershowitz is calling this one from a bastion of liberal group think - that takes courage. Thanks Dershowitz... “

Now Alan, go down to Floriduh and take over the case for Zimmerman’s defense Pro Bono. Now that would really be the “ethical” thing to do.


13 posted on 05/24/2012 10:05:28 AM PDT by vette6387
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Thanks Dershowitz

when he's right, he's right. Just like a stopped clock.

14 posted on 05/24/2012 10:09:58 AM PDT by chesley (Eat what you want, and die like a man. Never trust anyone who hasn't been punched in the face)
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Zimmerman should get Dershowitz for his defense attorney.

The cognitive dissonance at that point would cause liberal spontaneous combustion throughout our land.


15 posted on 05/24/2012 10:26:20 AM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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” She probably hoped to play this into a future governorship. Forget it, stupid.”

Is she 1/128th Cherokee?

She might be able to teach at Harvard.


16 posted on 05/24/2012 10:44:15 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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The Harvard law professor unbosomed his opinion ... (emphasis added)

Who writes this crud? I know what it means, etc. but come on... I am not even sure that the use of this word is correct given the context of the sentence...

17 posted on 05/24/2012 10:50:18 AM PDT by LaRueLaDue
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I understand.
The guts of the article is about the 2nd degree murder charge be dropped as it's not supported by evidence and would probably amount to an acquittal.
Only at the end does Dersh. say drop the case.

usually there is prosecutorial discretion. Don't know how it works in florida. Can the prosecutor withdraw the 2nd degree murder charge and re-file as manslaughter ? or do they first have to get the judge to dismiss ?

Thanks

18 posted on 05/24/2012 11:08:40 AM PDT by stylin19a (Obama - The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance)
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I am not even sure that the use of this word is correct given the context of the sentence...

I believe it is not correct. Alan Dershowitz is not confidentially revealing a private, secret thought here - he is shouting from the rooftops to anyone who cares to hear.

19 posted on 05/24/2012 11:20:55 AM PDT by Greysard
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Zimmerman should get Dershowitz for his defense attorney.

Dershowits's specialty is appeals.

20 posted on 05/24/2012 11:27:50 AM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The meek shall not inherit the Earth)
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