General News The Legacy of the George Zimmerman Trial

Dan82 · Jul 14, 2013

this hits the nail on the head imo

http://www.talkleft.com/story/2013/...News/The-Legacy-of-the-George-Zimmerman-Trial

Here's what I wrote last week on the legacy of the George Zimmerman case. It's as true today as it has been for the past 16 months.

The legacy of this case will be that the media never gets it right, and worse, that a group of lawyers, with the aid of a public relations team, who had a financial stake in the outcome of pending and anticipated civil litigation, were allowed to commandeer control of Florida's criminal justice system, in pursuit of a divisive, personal agenda.

Their transformation of a tragic but spontaneous shooting into the crime of the century, and their relentless demonization of the person they deemed responsible, not for a tragic killing, but for "cold-blooded murder," has called into question the political motives and ethics of the officials serving in the Executive branch of Florida's government, ruined the career of other public officials, turned the lives of the Zimmerman family, who are as innocent as their grieving clients, into a nightmare, and along the way, set back any chance of a rational discussion of the very cause they were promoting, probably for years. [More....]

The problems of racial disparity and arbitrary enforcement of our criminal laws are real, systemic and need to be addressed. Criminal defense lawyers see it and fight to correct it every day. From charging decisions to plea offers to sentences, the system is not fair and everybody knows it.

But this case has never been representative of those problems. And perhaps most unfortunate of all, as a result of the false narrative created by the lawyers for grieving parents who tragically lost their son -- a narrative perpetuated by a complicit and ratings-hungry media -- any attempt at meaningful reform is likely to fall on deaf ears for years to come.

http://www.talkleft.com/story/2013/...News/The-Legacy-of-the-George-Zimmerman-Trial
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Emberstone · Jul 14, 2013

the true story here is that it remains a crime to be a black male in this country.

the defense did not win their case by proving it was not murder, they won their case by casting enough doubt to lead a jury not to go the route of murder or manslaughter.

the same way caylee anthony's blood being in the trunk of her mothers car, her mothers handwriting being on the duck tape used to suffocate her, and the fact that her mother, even a month afterwords, had caylee's blood and skin dna under her fingernails was twisted by the same lawyer who got zimmerman off into not being relevant to caylee's death.

both cases were people changing their stories, caught in a series of lies, and got off scott free each time becuase their lawyer knows oratorical tricks.

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