The legacy of this case will be that the media never gets it
right, and worse, that a group of lawyers, with the aid of a public
relations team, who had a financial stake in the outcome of pending
and anticipated civil litigation, were allowed to commandeer
control of Florida's criminal justice system, in pursuit of a
divisive, personal agenda.
Their transformation of a tragic but spontaneous shooting
into the crime of the century, and their relentless demonization of
the person they deemed responsible, not for a tragic killing, but
for "cold-blooded murder," has called into question the political
motives and ethics of the officials serving in the Executive branch
of Florida's government, ruined the career of other public
officials, turned the lives of the Zimmerman family, who are as
innocent as their grieving clients, into a nightmare, and along the
way, set back any chance of a rational discussion of the very cause
they were promoting, probably for years. [More....]
The problems of racial disparity and arbitrary enforcement
of our criminal laws are real, systemic and need to be addressed.
Criminal defense lawyers see it and fight to correct it every day.
From charging decisions to plea offers to sentences, the system is
not fair and everybody knows it.
More here.
Bingo.
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"The state having to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, the
only real legal mechanism that protects even more blacks from being
put in jail, is racist.
We need to start adjudicating based on our feelings. Proof is so
racist."
/liberal.
More like progressive.
***
Remember kids. A proof, is a proof, is a proof.
***
"Criminal cases make for perfect and often dangerous
vehicles for social expression. They allow longstanding social and
racial issues to be personified in villains and victims. We
simplify facts and characters -- discarding those facts that do not
fit our narrative. We pile meanings on the outcome that soon make
the actual murder secondary to the message. Zimmerman and Martin
became proxies in our national debate over race. There was little
patience or need for the niceties of rules of proof and
adjudication.
Before the case is lost forever to the artistic license of social
commentary, a few legal observations should be considered, even if
unpopular, before condemning this jury."
More here.
The mob asks for blood, the prosecution tries to give some and has been falling flat on its face as a result because it stops at an entity that doesn't recognize its ambition: the Jury.
Soooooo.....get rid of the jury! /
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