Zimmerman trial starts today. - Page 69

bobabode · #**681** 07-14-2013, 08:23 PM

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Originally Posted by finnbow

It'll be interesting if NBC is held liable for defaming Zimmerman. What they did certainly was a breach of journalistic ethics, not that I expect much in terms of ethics from broadcast journalism anymore.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...inst-nbc-news/

Hardly defamation by editing out the dispatchers question, imo but then I'm no lawyer.

finnbow · #**682** 07-14-2013, 08:34 PM

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Originally Posted by BlueStreak

I don't see why they felt it necessary. One read of the 911 call transcripts reveals what he is.

Remember, a finding of innocence due to unclear evidence at some point doesn't necessarily mean he is not guilty. It just means he can't be convicted.

The guy we let go when I served on jury duty was guilty as hell and everyone in the courtroom knew it. We just couldn't convict him because of that one little shadow of a doubt.

Zimmerman stalked and killed Treyvon Martin. The young man had done absolutely nothing to warrant being followed in the first place. Nothing.

The system didn't punish him, but the people will. For a long, long time.

Dave

Perhaps so, but I find the show trial spectacle based upon the media/special interests deliberately injecting their proxy issues highly distasteful. The whole thing was a sorry media spectacle and I refuse to give in to them trying to manipulate me by pulling the right strings with their 24/7 coverage.

If it happened in my community, I'd care and be interested. It didn't and I'm not.

BlueStreak · #**683** 07-14-2013, 08:38 PM

Oh, I understand and concur with that. But, I still find the case and the fallout I believe has yet to come, very interesting.

Dave

icenine · #**684** 07-14-2013, 09:23 PM

To me Zimmerman has never shown remorse.... I mean if you really had to kill a teenager in self-defense because you thought may die I think you would be really sad and upset afterward. Not going on Sean Hannity's show and saying it was God's Will.

The Jury probably could not convict him because there was no evidence to show what really happened and as distasteful as it was to them decided to go by the standard of reasonable doubt.

Zimmerman is only 29 as he gets older and farther away in age to 17 he will realize the enormity of what he did. Anyone that goes around saying a tragic killing is God's will when it was precipitated by their own actions seems to me to be sort of socio-pathic.

BlueStreak · #**685** 07-14-2013, 10:26 PM

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Originally Posted by icenine

To me Zimmerman has never shown remorse.... I mean if you really had to kill a teenager in self-defense because you thought may die I think you would be really sad and upset afterward. Not going on Sean Hannity's show and saying it was God's Will.

The Jury probably could not convict him because there was no evidence to show what really happened and as distasteful as it was to them decided to go by the standard of reasonable doubt.

Yep.

Zimmerman is only 29 as he gets older and farther away in age to 17 he will realize the enormity of what he did. Anyone that goes around saying a tragic killing is God's will when it was precipitated by their own actions seems to me to be sort of socio-pathic.

Sometimes the things we tell others, we're really only trying to convince ourselves. Passing it off on God is a way of disassociating oneself. People used to blame it on the Devil, but we caught on to that with that "Son of Sam" idiot back in '75. However, it's true that the one thing you can never escape, or fool, is your own conscience.................assuming he has one. Some people apparently don't.

Dave

bobabode · #**686** 07-14-2013, 10:28 PM

I hope the Feds drop the hammer on him. They had better put him in a Supermax all by his lonesome if convicted because that fat punk wouldn't last two days in a federal penitentiary.

Zeke · #**687** 07-14-2013, 10:40 PM

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Originally Posted by bobabode

I hope the Feds drop the hammer on him. They had better put him in a Supermax all by his lonesome if convicted because that fat punk wouldn't last two days in a federal penitentiary.

Give him a hoodie, he'll be fine.

bobabode · #**688** 07-14-2013, 11:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Zeke

Give him a hoodie, he'll be fine.

He would look pretty in a pink hoodie...

noonereal · #**689** 07-15-2013, 06:26 AM

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Originally Posted by BlueStreak

People used to blame it on the Devil, but we caught on to that with that "Son of Sam" idiot back in '75.

Dave

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noonereal · #**690** 07-15-2013, 06:29 AM

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Originally Posted by BlueStreak

I don't see why they felt it necessary. One read of the 911 call transcripts reveals what he is.

Remember, a finding of innocence due to unclear evidence at some point doesn't necessarily mean he is not guilty. It just means he can't be convicted.

The guy we let go when I served on jury duty was guilty as hell and everyone in the courtroom knew it. We just couldn't convict him because of that one little shadow of a doubt.

Zimmerman stalked and killed Treyvon Martin. The young man had done absolutely nothing to warrant being followed in the first place. Nothing.

The system didn't punish him, but the people will. For a long, long time.

Dave

"A verdict of not guilty is not a finding of self-defense or that Trayvon Martin did anything wrong; it is a verdict of not proved beyond a reasonable doubt."