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Zimmerman Trial: 'The Sound of Silence'
Breitbart.com ^ | 12 Jul 2013 | Joel B. Pollak

Posted on 07/12/2013 8:43:30 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike

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To: Mr. K

Good point.


101 posted on 07/12/2013 10:48:05 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: freerepublicchat

Some facts about the case;
• Mortality from a severe beating is as high as 55%. Thus Zimmerman was justified if he believed his life was in danger.
• There’s the legal precedence which a case like this could set. If Zimmerman is convicted, it will harm EVERYONE’S right to take measures to protect themselves and to self-defense. If he’s convicted, then thugs will feel they have a right to go around beating up people, knowing that people will be afraid to use lethal force to defend themselves.
• If the law does little to protect the victim who uses deadly force for self-defense and you hurt or kill someone you must PROVE that you were in deadly danger of your life in court. And the cost of defending yourself will destroy you financially.


102 posted on 07/12/2013 10:51:23 AM PDT by itsLUCKY2B (?Borders, Language, and Culture.?)
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To: Truth29

The alternative that should be in their minds is that one of their loved ones could be confronted by another of Obama’s sons.


103 posted on 07/12/2013 10:53:03 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Refuse; Resist; Rebel; Revolt!)
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To: 426cuda

Can you imagine having a full time job of sitting in a jury box every day, all day long, and listening to people like Rachel Jenteal?


104 posted on 07/12/2013 10:53:21 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (If you vote for evil because you can't see evil, you ARE evil!)
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To: wideawake

I almost fell off my chair when he opened up with that... and in my head I finished the sentence

you must “listen to your heart... and NOT your head or the evidence”.

And I hope those women identify with the victim of the home invasion.


105 posted on 07/12/2013 10:55:54 AM PDT by IsThereAnyJustice
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To: LibertarianLiz
My appeal as the defense atty - “Ladies, imagine that George is your son or your husband or your neighbor. Would you not be proud or grateful that he did his best to protect you, and your neighbors and “little children”? While this entire ordeal has been a tragedy, would you want the tragedy compounded by innuendo and prosecutors who are supposed to - by their duty - present EVIDENCE, not innuendo and supposition in order to further destroy your family by violating the rule of law pushing for your husband or son to be jailed for many years? When he has already had his nose broken, his head pounded onto the concrete, and had the last year and a half treated as a parrhia
106 posted on 07/12/2013 10:55:54 AM PDT by IsThereAnyJustice
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To: Dubya-M-Dees

I am a woman and I guess I am supposed to be offended but I am not. I have a GREAT sense of direction - but even then - I don’t think I know anyone who lives in a subdivision - especially near the front, who necessarily knows every street name and address.

In fact, in my experience, ESPECIALLY other women use Landmarks as opposed to street names when giving directions - turn at the Walmart... third light after the Wegmans, after the house with the swing on the front porch..

And I do not know the ages, BUT my mom’s two best friends cannot remember that they called 10 minutes earlier and called back :^0


107 posted on 07/12/2013 10:55:54 AM PDT by IsThereAnyJustice
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To: Hotlanta Mike

My guess is that Zimmerman is screwed.

Liberal dogma has effectively captured and brainwashed most Americans. Hence, law, truth, justice and facts will be overriden by emotionalism and symbolism.

Indeed, the prosecution case rests on emotion.

Hence, hung jury or Zimmerman conviction most likely scenarios.


108 posted on 07/12/2013 10:55:54 AM PDT by ridin dirty
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To: GOPJ

I’ve said before that if Zimmerman’s name had been Rodriguez the case never would have made it out of Seminole County.


109 posted on 07/12/2013 10:57:00 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Refuse; Resist; Rebel; Revolt!)
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To: Lucky9teen

I’d like to give Mr. Guy a gun and drop him off in the bad part of town in the middle of the night. Then have a black guy in a hoodie come up and knock the crap out of him. We’d find out if he’d use that gun or if he would ask the guy to wait until the cops arrive.

By the way, I doubt if Mr. Guy has ever been in the bad part of town.


110 posted on 07/12/2013 10:58:32 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (If you vote for evil because you can't see evil, you ARE evil!)
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To: conservativebabe

Exactly, when the cop asked if i was going to press charges I said yes and he asked “over a case of water?” and i looked right at this kid and i mean kid and said “It’s the principal!” they kinda forget that.

and yes there are good ones but there hands are so tied they can’t do anything.

look at the stupid law that was just passed in NY. And I have 2 brothers who are cops there and they tell me it’s a joke. My brother said he will shoot the first superior who tells him to turn on the people.


111 posted on 07/12/2013 11:00:11 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: Iron Munro

She got her degree at the South Texas School of Law. Back many years ago when I was considering law school, several lawyers told me I could go to the South Texas School of Law and be accepted on the same day.


112 posted on 07/12/2013 11:01:12 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (If you vote for evil because you can't see evil, you ARE evil!)
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To: Hotlanta Mike

Zimmerman’s attorneys made the case simple to those jurors. Mark was trying to reach out to those females/to those moms by speaking calming. The hope now is that those women understand the law; to apply the law to the incident of George making the ultimate decision to act in self defense. They should not penalize nor judge him for the boy’s death/parents being sad.

Focus on the threat, of that incident. There was no other threat shown from evidence that George Zimmerman had made a threat to Trayvon. To me, beyond the prior phone calls to the 9-11 etc., it is irrelevant because Zimmerman had no other actions shown as a threat.

If they overlook the law, it could be a long weekend/then we will have a notion they are thinking with emotional reasoning or as a uniformed person(s)


113 posted on 07/12/2013 11:02:11 AM PDT by Christie at the beach
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To: Hotlanta Mike
I expect a quick return by the jury of a verdict of not guilty on all counts...let the looting begin!

lol

Let the concentrated Democrat parasite nests ("cities") burn to the ground from coast to coast while the animals loot each other. The reality is, very few of the animals give a rat’s ass about Trayvon or Zimmerman. It’s all about an excuse to loot and grab more “free stuff” they did nothing to earn. The animals in every city from coast to coast are begging for an excuse - - any excuse - - to loot.

114 posted on 07/12/2013 11:04:52 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Kevin in California

Its not liberal democrat run

Its minority areas

Sudbury Mass is dem and lib....safe as a crib

Its about particular minorities those cloer in timeline to primitive culture to be preciee......blacks ...some Islam......amerindian and afro latino.....
more than politics

Truth is truth

Do folks on a conservative site not get that’s?


115 posted on 07/12/2013 11:06:33 AM PDT by wardaddy (the next Dark Ages are coming as Western Civilization crumbles with nary a whimper)
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To: Kevin in California

Its not liberal democrat run

Its minority areas

Sudbury Mass is dem and lib....safe as a crib

Its about particular minorities those cloer in timeline to primitive culture to be preciee......blacks ...some Islam......amerindian and afro latino.....
more than politics

Truth is truth

Do folks on a conservative site not get that’s?


116 posted on 07/12/2013 11:07:03 AM PDT by wardaddy (the next Dark Ages are coming as Western Civilization crumbles with nary a whimper)
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To: cdcdawg

From “My Cousin Vinny “:

Judge Haller: let the record show Defense is holding up 2 fingers!


117 posted on 07/12/2013 11:13:45 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: Hotlanta Mike
Just a local Atlanta story. Nobody cares about one more white murdered by black thrill killers.


118 posted on 07/12/2013 11:17:06 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

Looks like any of them could be Obama’s sons...


119 posted on 07/12/2013 11:17:58 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: Lucky9teen

I’m betting the main reason he shut it down is because he refused to give Sabrina and Crump their share of the proceeds. If TrayMom doesn’t get a cut... it ain’t happening.


120 posted on 07/12/2013 11:24:34 AM PDT by moovova
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