I think the masses of people in this country that find this verdict so wrong are really small vocal mobs that are being manipulated by the media to appear as a majority.
In fact, there is as much evidence that there was a miscarriage of justice as there was to convict GZ(none) and the "mobs" are a media driven wet dream that exist only on TV news
I would agree on both points. As to the first point, the "Community Relations Service" of the DOJ sent teams to Stanford, Florida, but not to smooth community relations. By the descriptions in their own reimbursement invoices they recruited, trained and assisted in "demonstrations" and "protests", there and at several other places. Earlier, they had aided the "Occupy" movement to harass people at the Republican Convention. There is even a photo showing a CRS agent "high five-ing" an Occupy protester during their "protest". What is happening beyond a shadow of a doubt is our own Federal government employees aiding and abetting Marxist in their attempts to replace Rule Of Law under the Constitution with something the UN advocates.
When NBC edited the 911 call and introduced race, followed by CBS, they were called out on the fact that Zimmerman was Hispanic. To keep the same spin (which promoted hatred for Whites and self-loathing) they introduced a new ethnic group in this country, "White Hispanics".
The trial revealed several facts. The first and foremost, IMO, was an attack on the 2nd Amendment by characterizing the "Stand Your Ground" law as nothing more than giving thugs a license to kill, and not about self-defense at all. Secondly, the media continually posted side by side pictures of Martin as a pre-teenager to give him an angelic innocence look, while right next to Martin's photo was a doctored photo of Zimmerman, made to look much older and hardcore.
At the insistence of the Federal government state prosecutors intervened and tossed out the Stanford police department ruling of self-defense and filed 2nd Degree murder charges. Florida law defines 2nd Degree Murder as:
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0700-0799/0782/Sections/0782.04.htmlThe (1)unlawful killing of a human being, when perpetrated by any act imminently dangerous to another and (2)evincing a depraved mind regardless of human life, although (3)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
I never understood how a sentence could "not exceed life" unless they proposed to allow the body to rot in the cell after death. But, there are three elements that the State had to prove against Zimmerman:
(1) the killing was unlawful -- the self-defense law eliminated that
(2) Zimmerman "evinced" a depraved mind -- the prosecutors couldn't demonstrate that
(3) the shooting was not premeditated -- they knew they couldn't prove premeditation by virtue of the fact that they filed 2nd DM charges. If they could have proved premeditation then they would have went for 1st DM and the death penalty.
The prosecution's own witnesses were better witnesses for the defense than the prosecution. This became painfully clear as the prosecution completed presentation of its case before the jury. So sure were they of that fact that they had NOT proved 2nd DM that they introduced a new charge of 3rd DM, specifically 782.04-4h: "Aggravated child abuse". This charge was totally absurd and demonstrated how the prosecution was grabbing at straws. Martin was 17.5 years old when he was shot while doing a pretty good job of "grounding and pounding" Zimmerman. Interestingly, that term was first coined by Mark "The Hammer" Coleman during a pre-fight interview at the UFC. The prosecution tried to convince the jury that Zimmerman was the highly trained and deadly MMA fighter, yet Martin was the one using the tactic.
Also obvious in the case was the bias of the judge against Zimmerman and his defense team. The 5th Amendment guarantees that one cannot be forced to testify against himself. Lawyers are hired specifically to represent the accused and present his defense in court. Overruling defense attorneys objections while bypassing them and demanding that Zimmerman directly answer her questions destroys the 5th. From my POV it was an attempt to intimidate Zimmerman into testifying, thus giving the prosecution an opportunity to destroy him. I've seen skilful attorneys in action in court. Under the current rules and court procedures a good one could convince a jury that Jesus Christ himself would be a person that no responsible parent would allow a child to come near.
With the criminal trial over, the next charade will be the civil case by Martin's parents, and the civil rights trial by the Feds, thus destroying the Constitutional protection against double jeopardy ... which really has been dead for a long time. Civil court cases have much lower standards and the likelihood is that he will lose that one, making him a pauper for the rest of his life. The Feds will stack the court against him in the civil rights case, and he will mostly likely loose, unless the Hispanic community begins to make a huge fuss about equal or social justice. One thing for sure, they will have to coach Martin's girlfriend or get a whole new set of "witnesses".
