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In reply to the discussion: The jury was absolutely right [View all]brett_jv
(1,245 posts)With all the vitriol, aspersions, and emotionally-based arguments being thrown your way from the crowd.
As much as I felt (and said many times on this board) that I though Zimmerman was a liar, deserved jail, etc. Yet I also had a feeling he'd get off based on the bullshit that is FL's stand-your-ground and self-defense laws.
It appears that just because you're arguing that the Jury 'came to the LEGALLY proper decision' based on the law, and instructions they were given, this means you have naked pics of Zimmerman with which you pleasure yourself, and a poster of a lynching hanging your living room.
Everything you've said is perfectly reasonable and accurate, but nobody wants to accept it and prefers to call you names and such instead. It's really a sad display of ad-hominem going on in this thread.
Apparently nobody considers it even possible to simultaneously believe the Justice was NOT properly served, that SYG is BULLSHIT, and and that what's happened here is painfully unfair, and fundamentally just WRONG ... while ALSO believing that the Prosecution failed to make their case, and that the Jury reached a legally proper decision based on the applicable LAW, and Jury INSTRUCTIONS.
The burden of proof was basically on the prosecution to PROVE that Zimmerman began the physical altercation. That's the ONLY way they could win this case. Due in part to their shitty police work at the scene, they were simply unable to do this.
It sucks, and we're all pissed off about it. But Donald's argument here makes sense. Nobody can prove Zimmerman started the fight, and nothing he did prior to the fight was illegal. Once the fight began, according to SYG, all ZimZim's team had to do was prove he 'feared' for his life. It's a ridiculous law, but the jury decided this case 'right'.
I'm deeply sorry about what's happened here, despise Zimmerman with a passion, but ... what you've argued here is true and correct, no matter how much I wish it were not.