Juror B37 said- 'Zimmerman was GUILTY of not using good judgement.' 'He shouldn't have gotten out of the truck.' 'The law left us no good option.'
If all applicable charges had been on the table Zimmerman would not have walked.
I understand that various state judicial systems and our federal
judicial system are unique unto themselves, all operating under the US
Constitution. Focusing strictly on the Florida Judicial System, I must
say that there seems to be a built in 'devil's deal' concerning the
manner in which the prosecution must bring forth charges. It seems that
if the prosecution wants to seek a conviction on a Murder charge, they
feel that they might undercut their case on that charge if they also
seek Manslaughter charges and likewise that charge might be undercut by
the prosecution bringing charges on lesser crimes like Assault and/or
Battery.
I think that a better idea would be if Florida state law
(and other states' laws) required the prosecution to bring forth 'all
pertinent charges' and that the defendant be required to face 'all
pertinent charges'. Despite the complexity of Florida's firearms and
'stand your ground' laws, I'm sure we will all always wonder what the
jury in the Zimmerman trial might have done if they had these and other
lesser charges available to them. Might they not have found some way to
show George Zimmerman that he had gone over the line in his own self
defense (Battery)? Surely they could have found a legal means for
Zimmerman to do, at least, some time behind bars, to at least be placed
on lengthy probation and surely they could have concluded that his 'right to carry' a gun had only caused him and the community needless stress and pain and should be revoked?
Both
the Zimmerman and Casey Anthony trials seem to have left much of the
community feeling that justice could have been done a whole lot better. I
think that this change in state law I describe might have helped. I hope this change will be made in the name of Trayvon Martin.
http://ChipShirley.Com
July 15, 2013
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