The prosecution sounds familiar....
http://themartialist.net/?p=306
Monroe County Assistant District Attorney Julie Finnochio, by contrast, ruthlessly
and relentlessly prosecuted Scottt. She got the last word during closing arguments,
too, and tried to tell the jury that, regardless of the circumstances, the shooting was
not justified. After the jury came back with their verdict of not guilty, she couldn’t
resist the chance to twist the knife in Scott’s guts — or to further the propaganda that
has been spewing from her office from the outset. “I just hope it’s not a message to
this community,” she sniffed, “that you have the right to shoot an unarmed 17-year-old
kid for breaking into a car.”
This is intellectually dishonest. The woman is still trying to paint Scott, now a free
and vindicated man, as a cold-blooded murderer. These “kids” — these teenaged,
drunken, drug-addled, sometimes knife-toting petty criminals — were not shot at for
breaking into a car, but for trying to assault Roderick Scott when he caught them
committing theft.
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Yep. That's the real story in the Zimmerman/Martin case. It's not about racism, or "stand your ground," or whether Zimmerman was a "wannabe cop" or Martin a thug, or even really about what exactly happened that night (no one but George Zimmerman knows for sure). The truly horrifying thing about the Zimmerman trial is the way it higlighted just how little many prosecutors care about Justice. It's all about winning cases, preferably high-profile cases, getting convictions even where the facts don't even justify going to trial.
If Americans knew half of what goes on in courtrooms and DA's offices every day, they'd revolt.