Is it me or is American media only focused on one thing, The
Zimmerman trial and the effects? It is as if all the media out lets have no
other news to report, so there is nothing else going on in the US or the world
for that matter. I admit the case is a tragedy, a young man lost his life, a
mother lost a son and a man has to live with causing these events.
Baltimore, Maryland had sixteen unsolved homicides last
month. That only got local coverage.
Webster’s defines murder as the crime of unlawfully killing
a person especially with malice aforethought.
According to Florida law The unlawful killing of a human
being, when perpetrated by any act imminently dangerous to another and evincing
a depraved mind regardless of human life, although without any premeditated
design to effect the death of any particular individual, is murder in the
second degree and constitutes a felony of the first degree, punishable by
imprisonment for a term of years not exceeding life or as provided in s. 775.082,
s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.
776.013 Home protection; use of deadly force; presumption of
fear of death or great bodily harm.—
(1) A person is presumed to have held a reasonable fear of
imminent peril of death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another
when using defensive force that is intended or likely to cause death or great
bodily harm to another if: (b) The person who uses defensive force knew or had
reason to believe that an unlawful and forcible entry or unlawful and forcible
act was occurring or had occurred.
So those are the laws of Florida, Zimmerman was charged and
his lawyers proved to a jury of his peers that he was acting in accordance with
the law. If juror B-29 felt he was guilty why didn’t she deadlock it, then
there might be a retrial? Now he can never be charged again.
With so much going on why is this so special? It is as if we
shouldn’t know about the economy, the middle east, Obama killing US citizens,
or the NSA totally infringing on the Constitution and breaking the law.
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