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[Cakers1]

Oh crikey - another Z thread. I don't know why this is even national news.

and btw: You don't convict people because they have a violent past prior to the crime

[muttmom]

On 1/12/2015 esmeraldagooch said: Who would want to date him anyway? It's not like they haven't heard his name.

It does make you wonder how he could attract anyone.

[Free2be]

Guilty people do go free but that doesn't mean we have to like it or the results: more people harmed. It seems this is how the OP felt. The hostility toward her choice to post about it escapes me.

We simply have to accept that in arrests, or lack thereof and in investigations, mistakes are made that carry over and multiply into the courtroom. George Zimmerman is a prime example.

I take issue with the attitude that "mobs" are always wrong. What a "mob" is is a general consensus amongst a large group of citizens who, in the case, asked for justice in the form of an arrest that should have happened. My opinion.

[LilacTree]

As to the OJ reference, someone just came out and said that any leather glove would shrink when wet (and this one had to have blood on it). That's what I also thought when that comedy skit went on in the courtroom with OJ "trying to get the glove on." I'll never understand why the prosecutors did not pounce on that and do a demonstration to prove it wrong. Not to mention how stupid OJ looked trying NOT to pull the glove over his hand.

CNN is going to show the highlights of the trial again sometime soon. Anyone who has never seen it (it was twenty years ago after all) should try to watch this fiasco.

[Ms X]

On 1/12/2015 Free2be said:

Guilty people do go free but that doesn't mean we have to like it or the results: more people harmed. It seems this is how the OP felt. The hostility toward her choice to post about it escapes me.

We simply have to accept that in arrests, or lack thereof and in investigations, mistakes are made that carry over and multiply into the courtroom. George Zimmerman is a prime example.

I take issue with the attitude that "mobs" are always wrong. What a "mob" is is a general consensus amongst a large group of citizens who, in the case, asked for justice in the form of an arrest that should have happened. My opinion.

Free2be: The point is that the mobs in the Zimmerman and Ferguson situations demanded trials and even convictions before the facts of what happened were even available. In fact, physical evidence and eyewitness testimony proved that the mobs' claims about what happened were false. It is never right for a mob to form and demand prosecution based on skin color before the facts are known.

These mobs are undermining the justice system because they haven't gotten their way when the actual evidence emerged. They are attacking the grand jury system much in the same way as those who disliked the OJ verdict attacked the requirement for a unanimous jury verdict. It is imperative that we preserve our system regardless of the attacks on it from those who don't care about the facts or dislike a particular jury verdict.

[SydneyH]

On 1/12/2015 blahblahvampemerblah said: I supported George because of the evidence. Trayvon was a thug, just like Brown, and he came back to beat George up. When the prosecution released color photos of Trayvon, and b&w of George so his injuries wouldn't look as serious, that said a lot. The government ruined his life, and I'm not shocked he's acting out. Or does that argument only work if you're a thug?

Came back? There is no evidence Trayvon, troubled unarmed youth btw, changed directions to 'stalk' Mr. Z. Because we will never really know the sequence of events in the physical altercation, I understand the outcome of the trial. That being said, it appears that thug word can be more appropriately applied to Mr. Z who is showing, with each passing day, his capacity for maiming and killing are growing..........

[JuJu Squeezie]

Somebody, please take this knuckle head to another state or planet.

[Topaz Gem]

As soon as I read the story in the news, I knew a thread would appear in VP shortly. That guy is lucky that he was let off the first time, so he should thank his lucky stars and obey the law from here on out. It doesn't sound like he's smart enough to be able to figure that out. Even if he was genuinely innocent in the TM case, no one believes it now, based on his recent behavior. What a dodohead.

[Lipstickdiva]

Does this really need to be rehashed again?

[Topaz Gem]

On 1/12/2015 LipstickDiva said:

Does this really need to be rehashed again?

As they say, "It's the gift that keeps on giving."