The State of Florida vs George Zimmerman: The Trial

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So Zimmerman didn't kill Martin?

Sure did in legal self defense...................

oralloy wrote:

I think you'll find that most Americans place infinite value on freedom.

Therefore, even if you can establish that there are costs to our freedom, we'll still always choose freedom.

SO STIPULATED !

Which is a reason. You claimed the reason doesn't matter but now you seem to think it does.

There are about 70 million of you under the age of 18 and they have no freedom worth talking about. They can't even protect themselves legally in the way you demand for yourselves.

oralloy wrote: I think you'll find that most Americans place infinite value on freedom.

Therefore, even if you can establish that there are costs to our freedom, we'll still always choose freedom.

SO STIPULATED !

Fairy stories.

It's just another little play-pen conceit you have got going out of a want of intelligent companions.

Did your Moms warm your nappies?

There are about 70 million of you under the age of 18
and they have no freedom worth talking about.

They can't even protect themselves legally in the way you demand for yourselves.

You can't even dash through the traffic without risking being cuffed face down on the sidewalk.

Dershowitz makes the notes you mention as a hypothetical worst case.

Toward the end of the clip, Dershowitz argues that the only fact that matters in this case is who took the first swing. He claims that since we don't know who did that the state has not proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Zimmerman did not act in self-defense. And if that's the case, he should walk.
http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/07/10/Dershowitz-Zimmerman-Prosecutors-Going-for-a-Compromise-Manslaughter-Verdict

"Whether or not Zimmerman was a racist and racially profiled and shouldn’t have been doing it and didn’t listen to police, that's all irrelevant in Florida law," Dershowitz said.

"The case begins when the first blow was struck, essentially. And we don’t know who struck the first blow...

"I would say there's reasonable doubt. I would say nobody knows who started the initial fight," Dershowitz told "The Steve Malzberg Show" on Newsmax TV.

"Remember, it's monumentally irrelevant who's morally guilty here."

"In this case, it's very confusing. It's very conflicted … Self-defense is a very important principle in American law and people forget, too, that the government has the burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that he didn’t act in self-defense. They have to prove a negative beyond a reasonable doubt which is not easy to do."

http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/harvard-law-professor-alan-dershowitz-i-would-find-zimmerman-not-guilty---its-monumentally-irre/question-3795606/?link=ibaf&q=&esrc=s

Asked by CNN's Candy Crowley if he thinks there is enough evidence there for the Justice Department to move forward on a civil rights complaint, Dershowitz said, "I do not."

"I think this is a fairly traditional case of self-defense. It's a horrible tragedy. It reflects the racial divide in our society. There is no reason this young man should have been killed. Mr. Zimmerman may have been morally at fault for racially profiling and following him, but under the law of self defense, if he was on bottom and he was having his head banged against the pavement and was in reasonable fear of death or serious bodily harm, he had the right to respond the way he did."

"If there is going to be an investigation, it should be just for the racial profiling and the following, it shouldn't be for the events that led to the death, because then every case of self-defense will be turned into a federal case. And that's not what the civil rights law was intended to do."

Dershowitz said the family of Trayvon Martin could consider a civil lawsuit against Zimmerman, where the standard of proof is lower.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/liberal-law-prof-zimmerman-case-should-never-have-been-brought-first-place#sthash.kciMmGus.dpuf

He also said, "I might not want to be friendly with George Zimmerman

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