05-20-2012, 06:15 PM
(05-20-2012, 06:03 PM)IMaDick Wrote:(05-20-2012, 05:54 PM)Adub Wrote:(05-20-2012, 04:13 PM)IMaDick Wrote:(05-20-2012, 03:27 PM)Adub Wrote:(05-20-2012, 02:30 PM)Lady Cop Wrote: mindset (fear) would be relevant in an immunity hearing.
Maybe I am using the wrong word. I am not talking about state of mind.
The only way a "state of mind prosecution" would hold any authority is if they try to prove a hate crime.
State of mind would be momentary, right? Like fear? But someones mindset would be more like how they view things.
State of mind can lead in several directions, but to prove a hate crime at least to me the state "Prosecution" would have to prove a pattern of hate not just a one time occurrence that someone looks suspicious and that suspicious person turned out to be Black or some other nationality different from Zimmerman.
In most cases I think racial slurs have be audibly heard for a hate crime to have real teeth.
I never paid any attention to this being a hate crime. The prosecution is not claiming that it was a hate crime. Just that Zimmerman acted out of a "depraved indifference" when he shot Trayvon straight through the heart.
Still can't believe how clean Zimmerman's clothes look in the police photos.