07-14-2013, 11:16 AM
(07-14-2013, 08:38 AM)Cynical Ninja Wrote:(07-13-2013, 10:16 PM)username Wrote: Ohhh, you skeered me! Bang! You're dead.
Everyone with a gun is fucking James Bond now.
More like Steve Urkel packing heat.
I think once the jurors took "deranged mind - intent to kill" out of the equation and ruled out Murder 2, they had some very murky and defendant-friendly laws to consider.
The various Stand Your Ground laws across the country have always been controversial; some states that were considering such statutes failed to adopt them when this case hit the media. IDK if states with current SYG laws will consider revising them or not, but I hope so.
I wouldn't be surprised to learn from jurors that the defense essentially won this case by proactively addressing what I always considered the big hole in George's self defense claim; the "reasonableness" of his actions.
It won't surprise me if it turns out that the jury spent little time focusing on trying to determine who was the initial aggressor and whether George Zimmerman should have known better than to follow, against NW protocols, someone who he profiled as a "criminal suspect". Instead, imo, the jury focus may well have been on whether it was likely that George was reasonably in fear of great harm/death and could have done anything more than scream (possibly) and squirm to escape the altercation before he shot Trayvon Martin.
If the jury believed the "pussy" claims made in the defense's opening statement, claims supported by the testimony of both the gym owner and the justifiable force expert, then they may well have concluded that George Zimmerman did everything that he reasonably could (in his case = jack shit) before he shot Trayvon Martin; therefore acting in self-defense and justified in using deadly force.
Dan White served us the "Twinkie Defense". George Zimmerman now hands us the "Pussy Defense".
I'm not always interested in post-trial juror interviews. In this case, I'm very interested.