Can George Zimmerman get a fair trial or was he lynched by the media?

[Cainkane1]

With calls for the murder of George Zimmerman by such celebrities as Mike Tyson and The New Black Panthers and the media hype surrounding the case is it possible for Zimmerman to get a jury of unbiased peers in Florida?

 

[Unabogie]

Sigh.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

He can get a fair trial.

 

[triforcharity]

I agree with SG. Sure he can.

 

[BStrong]

Peers, yes.

Unbiased remains to be seen

Fair trial, yes.

 

[triforcharity]

Can you add a poll?

 

[Ryokan]

Lynched? Isn't lynching the hunting down and killing of black people?

*throws gasoline on fire*

 

[Madalch]

He's still breathing, so it's hardly correct to say that he's been lynched.

 

[notheist]

They Let OJ go free.

 

[dudalb]

Lynched? Isn't lynching the hunting down and killing of black people?

*throws gasoline on fire*

Nope, the definition of Lynching is the mob execution of a suspect of any race.
The lynching of white suspects by white lynch mobs happened quite a bit in the Old West.

 

[Sword_Of_Truth]

If he does a cartwheel, he's toast.

 

[Moon-Spinner]

If the lynching rope don't fit, you must acquit!

 

[ThunderChunky]

There was a recent poll that found something like 75% of black people think he's guilty and 55% of white people think he's guilty, so the court will be able to find people that have not made up their mind yet.

 

[fuelair]

Having heard the statements of the prosecuter - who spent all of it that I could stomach talking about the gift from god that prosecutors are and the fine and perfect gifts they give to we mere mortals, I feel no qualms at all in saying she is nothing more than another republicker trying to boost her butt up the political ladder on the backs of all the people involved in this case. I.e. she is almost certainly out to win regardless of full facts. (Note: I accept that there is a good chance he is indeed guilty. But I think for her - based on her speech to the press - that is a matter of very little importance . She is looking for the gold ring, not justice (regardless of where that takes her).

I do hope that takes her to the same place it took whatever her name was who helped so much with the 2001 election fraud in Florida (I think Katherine or Kathleen something - loser anyway!!

 

[Ziggurat]

I feel no qualms at all in saying she is nothing more than another republicker trying to boost her butt up the political ladder on the backs of all the people involved in this case.

It's just like those evil Republicans to trample over justice just to appease the likes of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.

 

[Xulld]

It's just like those evil Republicans to trample over justice just to appease the likes of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.

Ambition is plenty of a reason in and of itself. However I will wait and see how it plays out before I inject my own biases.

 

[Moon-Spinner]

It's just like those evil Republicans to trample over justice just to appease the likes of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.

State Attorney Angela Corey is just bucking for the black vote, it's so obvious, since this whole affair is about race anyway...

Note: I'm being sarcastic here

Note #2: There still may be some truth to the sarcasm...

 

[dudalb]

The sick thing is how politicians of all flavors will try to exploit this to thier advantage.
Frankly, in a case as charged with race as this one is, that is playing with dynamite and it might just blow up a la Los Angeles in the wake of the King verdict in 1992.

 

[jiggeryqua]

Having heard the statements of the prosecuter - who spent all of it that I could stomach talking about the gift from god that prosecutors are and the fine and perfect gifts they give to we mere mortals, I feel no qualms at all in saying she is nothing more than another republicker trying to boost her butt up the political ladder on the backs of all the people involved in this case. I.e. she is almost certainly out to win regardless of full facts. (Note: I accept that there is a good chance he is indeed guilty. But I think for her - based on her speech to the press - that is a matter of very little importance . She is looking for the gold ring, not justice (regardless of where that takes her).

Surely, it's inherent in the system - the job of the prosecution's equivicator is to argue that's he's guilty, while the defence have an equivicator of their own to argue that he isn't. I realise that profoundly distasteful views are tolerated here while they're expressed courteously, but that's actually how 'justice' operates. Does your better system involve you getting to decide who burns and who lives?

 

[dirtywick]

I think GZ got sand bagged pretty hard from a lot of angles. Even his *********** lawyers threw him under the bus.

End of the day though he'll get a fair trial. I'm barely following this, there's going to be a ton of people who haven't heard much about it because they have other things going on.