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I'm not sure someone being punished excessively is a good reason to mimic it Isaac Send a noteboard - 09/07/2013 10:26:51 PM

View original postAnd I fully expect riots on par with the riots after the officers were acquitted for the Rodney King beating.


View original postAnd to be honest, I would not blame anyone for rioting. The Florida judicial system is fucked if someone who KILLS somebody with a gun gets off while that poor lady who fired a warning shot into the ceiling as her ex-boyfriend came at her, a man she had a RESTRAINING ORDER AGAINST, goes to jail for 20 years.


View original postAnd if Zimmerman gets off, he better go into deep hiding, because I am pretty sure there will be people looking to whack his ass.

I stay out of legal hearings, not my business unless I'm a juror, so I've no idea if that lady was punished properly and don't plan to research it, but she wasn't sent to jail for firing a warning shot, that may be what happened but she was sent to jail for aggravated assault. The woman has apparently been found guilty, and plead guilty, to domestic abuse in the past and the claim - true or not - is that it was not a warning shot against an aggressor but an outright threat against a spouse seeking to flee abuse. Swap genders and it reads differently, but woman can actually be physically abusive to their spouses same as men. Now, was that what happened? No idea, but a jury thought it was, and that's what she went to jail for, not because a jury thought she was firing a warning shot against an aggressor. Juries aren't infallible but they rarely convict without fairly solid evidence.

But if you do feel she's telling the truth and has been over-sentenced in your eyes, that doesn't justify over-sentencing someone else. And you said 'KILLS someone with a gun', you didn't say or imply a murder, even if she did just fire a warning shot on legitimate grounds that's no reason to assume anyone who kills another should be getting life imprisonment, premeditated murder? Yeah, but even an unjustified killing or unnecessary killing doesn't automatically rate execution or life imprisonment, that's why we have things like manslaughter or negligent homicide.

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Looks like Zimmerman is going to be acquitted..... - 09/07/2013 08:54:18 PM 1246 Views
I've figured this since the first week of testamony - 09/07/2013 09:06:59 PM 901 Views
I'm not sure someone being punished excessively is a good reason to mimic it - 09/07/2013 10:26:51 PM 647 Views
Excellent response, you covered everything I would have wanted to. *NM* - 10/07/2013 06:48:15 PM 318 Views
Thanks *NM* - 11/07/2013 01:35:15 AM 258 Views
Nutty reply by you as usual.....but..... - 09/07/2013 10:36:45 PM 710 Views
coming from your side of the aisle, I take that as a compliment. :-) - 11/07/2013 12:18:07 AM 858 Views
All right, let's talk about Yoda, this so-called 'wise' Jedi Grandmaster - 11/07/2013 01:34:57 AM 597 Views
Yep that Yoda. - 11/07/2013 02:26:03 AM 750 Views
It is a time-honoured US criminal justice tradition after all - 10/07/2013 10:06:35 PM 561 Views
The prosecution has been terrible in this case. It reminds me of the OJ prosecution. - 10/07/2013 10:58:50 PM 580 Views
When one person is on top of another beating him up..... - 11/07/2013 04:22:02 AM 638 Views
As a person who has been trying not to follow the case - 11/07/2013 04:07:01 PM 641 Views
Yeah, but you are forgetting something rather important - 11/07/2013 06:41:54 PM 671 Views
I am sorry but that is not quite true - 11/07/2013 07:10:19 PM 676 Views
Go review the timeline it is available online. *NM* - 11/07/2013 07:22:43 PM 250 Views
There is no call for self-defense for a fight you initiated yourself - 11/07/2013 06:34:46 PM 649 Views
Once again, following someone doesn't justify assault. - 11/07/2013 07:34:09 PM 539 Views
Thank god the perpetrator got shot - 11/07/2013 07:48:12 PM 595 Views
And once again, when did Zimmerman identify himself as the neighbourhood watchman? - 11/07/2013 08:59:28 PM 628 Views
He was under no legal obligation to do so. - 12/07/2013 01:39:45 AM 608 Views
He was also under no legal obligation to follow Martin, despite being neighbourhood watchman - 12/07/2013 05:15:00 PM 757 Views
Except that there is exactly zero evidence to support your scenario. - 12/07/2013 06:00:05 PM 674 Views
If you don't care one way or the other, why are you arguing so strongly for acquittal? - 12/07/2013 10:06:00 PM 590 Views
You covered several areas... - 12/07/2013 11:28:18 PM 614 Views
A couple of points... - 13/07/2013 12:15:47 AM 662 Views
I have to disagree about the manslaughter - 13/07/2013 12:45:32 AM 547 Views

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