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sjfcontrol wrote:Are they going to give George his firearm back?

mojo84 wrote:Interesting. Wonder what the reaction will be.

philip964 wrote:The photo is now much more valuable from Zimmerman's use.

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philip964 wrote:Good morning. Here is today's Trayvon Martin/ George Zimmerman story.

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/arch ... ouncements" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Princeton University Orchestra will have the world premier of the commissioned work "The Ballad of Trayvon Martin" tonight.

MeMelYup wrote:I'll bet Trayvon Martin didn't know who Beethoven and Dvorak were.

philip964 wrote:http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/18/justice/f ... an-arrest/

The thread that just keeps on giving.

Zimmerman arrested for pointing a shotgun at his girl friend. Apparently barricaded himself in his house with furniture to block the door. Arrested without further incident.

I believe this is a felony.

Well I guess he was really a bad guy afterall. If convicted I assume he will loose his CHL.

The only question will be, can we get to 300 posts before then.

C-dub wrote:http://baltimore.cityandpress.com/node/6529015
Well, here we go again. The DOJ is going to find something that nobody else did.

AndyC wrote:That female jewelry found in Martin's backpack along with a screwdriver appears to be from a burglary near his school:

Martin - burglary cover-up by school police to reduce crime stats?

"I'm holding it for a friend..."

Right!

RottenApple wrote:

Sport Coach wrote:Incredible the difference between "reporting" on the different channels - CNN and Fox. Robert Zimmerman was a model of calm and accurate discussion, replying to Piers Morgan's baiting and inaccuracies. My jaw dropped when Morgan claimed the 17-year-old boy was only armed with a bag of Skittles to which Zimmerman replied Martin was armed with a concrete sidewalk and bone-breaking fists.

I'd love to "arm" Morgan with a Blue Gun, sucker punch him in the face, start slamming his head into a sidewalk, and see how long it take him to go for his gun. Heck, do that to every moron who thinks this was a bad outcome and eventually they might see the truth.

ETA: I wouldn't actually do it, mind you, but its probably the only way to get through to them.

McKnife wrote:

tomtexan wrote:I wonder if Z will get his CWP reinstated?

He better get his dang gun back ASAP!

RottenApple wrote:Looks like M2 has been ruled out.

http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/07/zi ... slaughter/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Zimmerman trial jury paused their deliberations at around 6:00PM EST to present Judge Nelson with a question:

“May we please have clarification on instructions regarding manslaughter?”

Nelson announced the question to the parties in open court, and has now recessed court 30 minutes to address the issue with the jury.

The verdict form is here. Final Jury Instructions here.

The implications of this question can only be addressed speculatively. It does, however, strongly suggest that murder 2 has been discarded from the jury’s consideration. All six jurors may be seriously considering manslaughter, or it may be a situation in which 5 jurors believe manslaughter does not apply (presumably because the State has failed to disprove self-defense beyond a reasonable doubt) but find they are having trouble convincing the 6th jury of the same.

mojo84 wrote:

Dragonfighter wrote:You know I find it interesting, the number of blacks at my work who think GZ should be acquitted vs. the number of non-blacks who thinks he's guilty.

We all know that not all blacks think the same way. Nor do all whites, hispanics etc. It's the small but loud minority in each group that want to incite people's emotions by playing up racism in order to achieve their social/societal goals.

This is why it is extremely important that we see everyone as individuals rather than as being part of a racial, ethnic our religious group that all think and act alike.

bulinm wrote:To the untrained eye, it appears that the defense is getting all it needs from the prosecution witnesses.
Sometimes, I guess, there's prosecutorial incompetence, and sometimes, well, you just don't have a case.

ajwakeboarder wrote:I don't understand the logic in that. Find an innocent man guilty to prevent people from breaking the law.