A good summary of the evidence and items which were not necessarily material to the trial such as Zimmerman and Martin's histories which were often left out of the dialog.

We owe it to ourselves to not resort to calling in the big guns for every possible situation. Very well said. I feel that we have become so confrontation averse that we are wanting other people to deal with all of our problems. Neighbor smoking a cigar on their deck and it's blowing into my yard? C...

Heffay wrote:

Dante wrote:Remember only 50% of all doctors graduate in the top half of their class!!!

What do you call the guy who graduated from the bottom of his medical school?

Doctor.

Nothing wrong with going up to the van and asking him if everything is ok. The problem is if the guy flips you off and drives away, do you chase after him? The answer will determine whether you're a moron or not. ;-) Fair assessment, but if they return and attack me several minutes later am I still...

Zimmerman was a complete and absolute moron. He should never have gotten out of his car. He should not have approached Martin, talked to him, or engaged him in any way. He should not have talked to police, gave multiple interviews, or staged a walk-through without legal representation present. Thes...

Ironbear wrote:I see you chose the red pill...

//Win.

I'm trying to find the article I read that "warning shots" aren't covered under "Stand Your Ground" laws in Florida. If you read into the case details -- she may or may not have been an unwilling participant as well...IANAL. One can argue that if you are not in enough imminent d...

It may be that the primary travesty of justice here was CBS's "reporting." http://www.scribd.com/doc/89763383/States-Motion-in-Opposition-of-Defendants-Motion-for-Immunity I retract my earlier statement that this appears to be a travesty. After reading the Motion in Opposiion, this paints...

gman1868 wrote:Massad Ayoob's blog:

http://backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/

I was wondering why the Guru remained silent the past 18 months. I now have an answer.

That if MNGT had advertising on the site, the Zimmerman Trial Off To An Acceptable Start thread could have generated enough revenue to pay for all upgrades, paid staff moderators, and enough left over to donate cash and avoid charity auction fiascos.

I wonder if there will be a 34 page thread about this travesty of justice... No, but in the interest of putting more information out about it, here is some more information [emphasis mine]: Saying he had no discretion under state law, a judge sentenced a Jacksonville, Florida, woman to 20 years in ...

Justice Has Been Served! http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57433184/fla-mom-gets-20-years-for-firing-warning-shots/ Granted, we don't have the details of the case but this looks like a travesty of justice. But then again, you don't fire warning shots- you shoot to stop a threat. This is why you c...

tman wrote:This thread is chock-full of stupid.

I am sorry for having contributed.


Sent from my iPhone using that app which shall not be named.

Pretty much where I am, too. I think I even lead off my first post with 'I don't know why I'm stepping into this mess...'

Hmac wrote:Not good news for Zimmerman, but definitely a potential basis for appeal.

What next? Littering?

So, would Travyon been in fear of great bodily harm or death when Zimmerman held his gun up to his chest? Not in the legal sense as he was engaged in bashing Mr. Zimmerman's head into the ground and delivering blows to the head when it happened. I'm not certain why this not-so-irrelevant factoid se...