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Originally Posted by Platapus
This is good news. This is why we have courts -- to determine, from a legal standpoint, what happened.
Thanks to the media the jury pool will be rather shallow.  |
But without the media this would have been swept under the rug by daddy Judge, as was initially attempted. (Basis of a free media amendment, to prevent the well connected from victimizing the citizens)
That being said murder 2 is a bit over the top. I would go for a manslaughter 3 degree, as I do not think Zimmerman went into this wanting to kill him a colored boy.
Vigilantism should not be encouraged.
I am encouraged by the lack of hairtrigger "ban guns" comments that accompany stories like this in other forums.
