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re: Zimmerman not guilty
Posted on 7/14/13 at 3:28 pm to CHSgc
Posted on 7/14/13 at 3:28 pm to CHSgc
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the statute may be "based" off common law but it inverts the burden of proof.
Despite the so-called "inversion", the defense did demonstrate that Zimmerman was in reasonable fear of great bodily harm/death and used deadly force appropriately to fend off that result. It is because of this, I do not understand why you are caught up on this "inversion" when the defense did not sit back and force the prosecution to disprove this claim, they were active in their demonstration of the reasonable use of self-defense.
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It has nothing to do w/ political beliefs.
I never said you were left or right politically. I said when you start debating about the validity of a law you enter the realm of politics which is what this discussion devolved into.
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is the thread worth reading?
Not really
This post was edited on 7/14/13 at 3:30 pm
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Posted on 7/14/13 at 3:49 pm to bdelarosa7
Regardless of all the "facts" quoted here by both sides, the "fact" remains that the jury was made up of all white women plus one hispanic female. GZ's atty was openly pleased by the jury selection & was quoted on tv as saying this was exactly the type of jury the defense wanted. That the 17 yr old kid who was killed was black & wearing a hoodie is also a fact. You can say this was not a raced based case all you want,but reverse the races of all the parties described here & tell me you would not be screaming for a guilty decision. And I am no flaming liberal, as I was voting the GOP ticket long before it became the fashionable thing to do.
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