@hawkeye10,
Quote:if she is the only evidence that he committed a crime then her credibility must be challenged if justice is to prevail, this is not a flaw in the pursuit of justice. if her credibility is suspect then this reality is highly relevant.
What has that got to do with their continued vilification of Zimmerman's previous victim, Trayvon Martin, and their continued need to use him as an excuse to spew racist venom?
Where did I say anything about their challenging the credibility of his current accuser? In fact, they largely seem to be avoiding the issue that Zimmerman has been arrested
again.
Your response to my comments is, once again, disconnected and illogical. You really do seem to have marked difficulty following and/or comprehending the posts you respond to.
And, she's not "the only evidence" that Zimmerman committed a crime. The police found Zimmerman locked in her house, with the door barricaded with furniture, and he was unwilling to respond to their requests/demands that he open the door. That's evidence they observed first hand, and it does seem to support her claim that a dispute occurred and that he threw her out of her own house. And there was other physical evidence inside of the house as well. The police believed her, which is why they arrested him, and this time they really didn't hesitate about doing that.
And, while Zimmerman was barricaded inside the house, he also gave himself time to alter the crime scene...
Her credibility about what took place, as well as his credibility, really can't be properly judged, at all, by the public, until the actual evidence against Zimmerman is released, and/or she, or both of them, actually testifies in court.
Quote:it is the number of convictions that count in American law, not the number of arrests, and even that is highly dubious. Each bad act should be judged on its own merits.
That's in terms of having a criminal record. And, each new criminal charge is judged on its own merits in terms of legal procedures.
But, when someone continues to display a pattern of behaviors, that pattern can't be entirely ignored either, particularly in the court of public opinion, because that does say something about the habitual behavior of the accused and his credibility in a current case. Zimmerman has displayed patterns of behavior, and, we're not in a courtroom now. If it looks like a duck, and walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck...the possibility it might be a horse is rather dim.
