Posted on 07/31/2013 12:57:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
After the courts are through with Trayvon Martin's sweatshirt, which he was wearing when he was killed, will it wind up in an evidence locker...or a museum?
Long after the trial ends, the evidence remains.
Sometimes, it's returned to family members. Other times, if it's valuable, it's auctioned off. And then, if there's no more room for it in the court house or police station and the case is long closed, it's destroyed.
In the case of Trayvon Martin's iconic black hooded sweatshirt, which he was wearing the night neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman shot and killed him in 2012, there will be no return to a family member, appearance at an auction or trip to the incinerator. At least not yet.
Last week, the Washington Post reported, Sanford, Fla., police removed the infamous garment from the frame it had been displayed in when prosecutors showed it to the jury during Zimmerman's trial. Zimmerman, who was charged with second degree murder and manslaughter in Martin's death, was acquitted last month.
After the trial, the hoodie was placed in an evidence bag and driven by Sanford Police to a Justice Department office in Orlando, along with other items Martin possessed on the night of his death, including a bag of Skittles and an AriZona brand beverage....
(Excerpt) Read more at news.msn.com ...
To be displayed as the Shroud of Trayvon at NAACP headquarters.
It’s already hanging in the OJ Simpson The Glove Didn’t Fit Museum currently located in the Nevada State Prison in the small town of Godforsakendesert.
Probably in the Smithsonian Institution.
The nearest outhouse?
” Probably in the Smithsonian Institution. “
Then some black kid wearing a hoodie will steal it....
Obama’s Presidential Library and Bribe Depository.
Ascended to Heaven?
The Hoodie didn't do anything! Trayvon Martin attacked George Zimmerman! He could have been wearing a Tuxedo!
Some really slutty performer will offer the most money to use it as a G-string.
But that’ll have to wait until after it’s finished the four years of college donated to it, and a free trip around the world, MSNBC and CNN are making competing offers to give it a prime-time show...
Good thing GM donated that car so it can get around- there’s so much for it to do!
Maybe they can also display the bag of Skittles and can of uhhhmmmm Watermelon Juice and lighter and grass stained pants and will find his shoes by then too. The RATL might even let them have the concrete from his last bash.
That, alone, should get you 6 months in jail............The Death Penalty in Boston...........
The trash sounds fine......
Probably in the Cathedral of St. Hillary of Benghazi annex to the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor. Cuz he was the first black President, and all...
You mean Lovelock? It's a nice place to drive through, but you wouldn't want to visit.
It's a nice place to be from.Far from.
It would be wonderful for my scary front yard scarecrow this October
Jay-Z will buy it and hang it above center court at Brooklyn Nets games.
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