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As George Zimmerman Prosecution Implodes, A Media Invested In His Guilt Grows More Shrill
Mediaite ^ | July 2, 2013 | Noah Rothman

Posted on 07/02/2013 1:42:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: fwdude

Nope. He was 17, still legally a minor.

Thought the other day how you could make people’s heads explode by referring to him as a “boy,” which implies youth and innocence, exactly what they’re going for with “teen.”


21 posted on 07/02/2013 1:53:53 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Ingtar

If an officer as down having his head pounded into the sidewalk, I’ll bet that detective would have gotten religion instantaneously. Because it was a citizen protecting himself, “Oh we can’t have that.”

I’m so tired of dip-sticks.


22 posted on 07/02/2013 1:55:45 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Breaking News: Hillary not running in 2016. Brain tumor found during recent colonoscopy...)
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To: Sherman Logan
Your very wording here indicates that you have yourself prejudged his innocence.

As our legal system does, until proven guilty in a court of law...

23 posted on 07/02/2013 1:56:55 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: BitWielder1

You’ve just identified the future of American justice.
Add in a cheering studio audience, a big wheel for the defendant to spin for his “sentence,” and you’re there...


24 posted on 07/02/2013 1:57:30 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (NRA Life Member)
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To: DoughtyOne; AngelesCrestHighway; Georgia Girl 2; GraceG; KeyLargo

George Zimmerman’s Black Ancestry is Revealed
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2876811/posts

George Zimmerman: the black, Hispanic, Peruvian, kind-hearted non-white, not-racist poster boy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2876692/posts

George Zimmerman Has ‘Black Roots’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2876518/posts


25 posted on 07/02/2013 1:57:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's next run. What'll you do?)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

SALTINES!


26 posted on 07/02/2013 1:58:26 PM PDT by LachlanMinnesota
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Thank goodness that FL is a CCW state.


27 posted on 07/02/2013 1:58:58 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: Sherman Logan

We’ve pretty much had access to the information for months. I don’t think it’s that big of a stretch by this point to think he’s innocent.

We know Zimmerman’s head was being pounded into the sidewalk. What more do we need to know, to realize he was defending himself?

I couldn’t convict the guy on that alone.

There would be no justifiable act for Martin using what could easily have been lethal force. End of story.


28 posted on 07/02/2013 1:59:00 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Breaking News: Hillary not running in 2016. Brain tumor found during recent colonoscopy...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Could it be the prosecutor is intentionally blowing the case because he doesn’t really believe in Zimmerman’s guilt or in the charges?

The federal government (Barack and Holder) practically ordered the state and local governments to charge Zimmerman.

(If Obama had a son he would look like Trayvon)

Barack and Holder are also responsible for getting the media stirred up and turning this into a racist circus.


29 posted on 07/02/2013 1:59:34 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Welcome to Obama-Land - EVERYTHING NOT FORBIDDEN IS COMPULSORY)
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To: Red Steel

And incite riot for ratings for pure debased self-interests.

The MSM gets a Ratings payoff and gets to live longer on borrowed time, and the Administration get a Crisis they won’t let go to waste....

It is WIN-WIN for those who seek to destroy....


30 posted on 07/02/2013 1:59:35 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: Red Steel
I'm thinking that the prosecution received their marching orders when this thing blew up in the press. In looking over the facts they realized they had been given a soup sandwich of a case. The locals had gotten it right in the beginning and the prosecution was now stuck between the ole rock and hard place.

So what to do? Lose the case without throwing in the towel. And that's what their doing.

31 posted on 07/02/2013 2:00:24 PM PDT by Wingy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Over the last few days I noticed he is no longer referred to as just “Trayvon Martin.” Now he is referred to as “Unarmed teen, Trayvon Martin.” The Obamedia are really working to subvert the justice system on this one.


32 posted on 07/02/2013 2:00:59 PM PDT by Trod Upon (Every penny given to film and TV media companies goes right into enemy coffers. Starve them out!)
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To: JimRed
It does not.

You are presumed innocent till proven guilty. That is quite different from prejudging innocence as a fact before the trial even begins.

Look, I believe he probably did act in self-defense, but if your criticism of the media is that they prejudged him, not that they prejudged him as guilty rather than innocent, then you shouldn't prejudge him yourself if you want to be consistent.

33 posted on 07/02/2013 2:01:09 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Georgia Girl 2

No.

Only in the big cities still restricting second amendment rights.
The lesson of the Korean Shop owners will prevail elsewhere.


34 posted on 07/02/2013 2:02:28 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: GraceG
I think the MSM and the Admin have been spoiling for a nationawide race riot from the start on this....

Given the low information anture of the populace, they may get it....

Sadly....

Sadly if we are to return to the Republic and Constitution we have all but lost, there, it appears, will have to be blood spilled, let us pray that unlike George Bush the first, we see it thru till the win is assured.

35 posted on 07/02/2013 2:02:44 PM PDT by SilverMine (ever member of congress should be horse whipped)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Have you seen this?:

http://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2013/07/zimmerman-prosecutor-indicted-for.html

What’s this about?


36 posted on 07/02/2013 2:04:56 PM PDT by griswold3 (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes)
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To: DoughtyOne
We know Zimmerman’s head was being pounded into the sidewalk. What more do we need to know, to realize he was defending himself?

I don't know exactly what happened that night, but I can certainly give you a scenario where his actions would not constitute self-defense, even if his head was being pounded into the pavement.

If Zimmerman assaulted Martin, a felony, he cannot later claim self-defense if he is losing a fight he started himself. Self-defense cannot be claimed in commission of a felony.

Otherwise, if a perp attempted to mug an innocent citizen, then won the ensuing gun fight, he could claim self-defense and walk.

I'm not claiming that's what happened last year, only that being in the process of losing a fight does not necessarily make lethal action self-defense under the law. Nor should it.

37 posted on 07/02/2013 2:06:18 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: griswold3

it’s a stupid made-up phony baloney plastic banana “indictment” by some group that has zero legal power and which only makes them look like loons


38 posted on 07/02/2013 2:07:22 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The really nasty tactics are yet to come, I’m suspecting.


39 posted on 07/02/2013 2:08:17 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They seem to think today’s testimony by the detective will turn it all around against Mr. Zimmerman.

Shepard Smith started to make a noose


40 posted on 07/02/2013 2:08:25 PM PDT by molson209
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