Ishmael
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Of course it should have gone to trial. I will say that it should not have been made a spectacle, but absolutely it had to go to trial. I think the jury voted correctly, but really, Zimmerman should be going to jail. Can you please explain how you think the aftermath would turn out to be the biggest tragedy of all?
No it shouldn't have. There was no evidence to support any of the charges brought against Zimmerman. The lead investigator said so in his report as did the police chief, and the then state attorney, Norm Wolfinger. Norm recused himself from the case rather than succumb to political pressure. The police chief was fired and the lead investigator demoted. The IT guy for the states attorneys office was fired Friday, why, because he is the fellow that notified the court, and the defense, that over 2000 pages of evidence were being withheld by the prosecution from the defense. These were ALL political acts made by politicians for no other reason than to force charges, a trial, and with the withholding of evidence presumably a guilty verdict. And after all of these mechanations to force the trial and a guilty verdict the jury still found correctly on the basis of the law.
And under which statute would you incarcerate Zimmerman? There are none that I know of that you might apply to achieve that particular goal.
And why is the aftermath going to be worse? What was once a racial showdown only in the eyes of a few has now been blown into a problem of epic proportions no small thanks to the media. The case was never about race, even Martin's parents have publicly stated so. And while initially there were only a few in the black community that wouldn't be satisfied with anything short of Zimmerman being found guilty, or killed, those numbers have swelled to the thousands, thousands focused on Zimmerman specifically and whites in general. All because of this political show trial and how is this a good thing?
As far as Zimmerman is concerned I hope that he's used this time to finish the level 3 Rosetta Stone courses in Spanish and then uses his South American passport to leave the country because his life isn't worth a plug nickle here. Some gang banger is going to cap his ass thinking they're going to be hailed a hero, and some will hail him as such, and that action is going to have consequences of its own.
Ishmael