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I guess I didn’t quite understand the case. I just believed what the media had been saying....

Therein lies the problem with the United States of America. Believing the media is everyone's FIRST mistake. Their second mistake is believing they can tell others what to do and how to do it.

It is not up to me and you to tell others how to live their lives. Everyone needs to stay the hell out of others' business, and that includes some of the other "nosy neighbors" we have here on Free Republic who seem to think it is a good idea to tell others how to live and what NOT to do in their neighborhood.

To fix this problem, turn OFF your television, and start using the internet to look up stories, and READ them, CAREFULLY and take into account WHO WROTE them. Read BOTH sides of the stories and glean from that information the TINY AMOUNT of truth that actually is given in all the articles. Eventually you can tell what is fact and fiction, and how slanted articles are. Perhaps then you can properly make an intelligent analysis of the situation.

The second thing to do is not assume everyone is a criminal even if it looks like they are (ok, if I see some punk assed maggot shoot an innocent on a video camera then he's a criminal and I'd convict his ass instantly on a jury... he'd better HOPE I don't sit on his jury). But if there is a reasonable DOUBT that he pulled the trigger, I'm not going to convict him. I'd rather see a guilty criminal back out on the street than to put an innocent man or woman in prison, and if everyone here doesn't believe that then there's something else wrong with America.

"I guess I didn't quite understand the case. I just believed what the media had been saying..."

Very classy statement, rw, and I for one commend you for it.

So many that just accepted everything that TX Gov't said, or the media reported, have become simply rabid in their abuse of those of us who said "whoa there - where is the rule of law?".

That you listened to others, and changed your opinions based on solid evidence, speaks volumes about you.

If ever I am in need of a sincere juror, may I call on you?