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13 Jul 2013, 10:41 pm

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Honestly, I am just glad this trial is over. No matter the outcome, this trial has taken its toll and sadness is felt on all sides. But the American justice system has spoken and that's it, time to move on. I do hope that people will leave both the Zimmerman and Martin families alone. Also, I hope the media decides to get this story out of their rear ends and find something else to talk about...

Ah ... youthful idealism ... I hope you never grow out of it.

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13 Jul 2013, 10:41 pm

THE VERDICT IS WRONG!! !! ZIMMERMAN SHOLD BE LOCKED UP IN PRISON FOR LIFE, NOT INNOCENT AND FREE!! !! :x I feel really bad for Trayvon's parents! :cry:



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13 Jul 2013, 10:42 pm

^ Gee, yer honor ... you should really get out more!

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13 Jul 2013, 10:53 pm

Fnord wrote:
^ Gee, yer honor ... you should really get out more!

:roll:

How could you be such a cynic?!?!? Stop being cruel, and show some compassion!



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13 Jul 2013, 10:57 pm

CBRVA83 wrote:
Fnord wrote:
^ Gee, yer honor ... you should really get out more!
How could you be such a cynic?!?!? Stop being cruel, and show some compassion!

For what?

Show's over, dude. The jury's gone home, and even the media is packing it in for the night.

How about showing some compassion for the five dollars that I lost betting on a "Guilty" verdict?

:lol: :lol: :lol:



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13 Jul 2013, 11:04 pm

Fnord wrote:
CBRVA83 wrote:
Fnord wrote:
^ Gee, yer honor ... you should really get out more!
How could you be such a cynic?!?!? Stop being cruel, and show some compassion!

For what?

Show's over, dude. The jury's gone home, and even the media is packing it in for the night.

How about showing some compassion for the five dollars that I lost betting on a "Guilty" verdict?

:lol: :lol: :lol:

This trial was no game that you can bet on! An innocent child that's dead, and his parents, will never get justice against the man that murdered him! :(



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13 Jul 2013, 11:09 pm

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Fnord wrote:
CBRVA83 wrote:
Fnord wrote:
^ Gee, yer honor ... you should really get out more!
How could you be such a cynic?!?!? Stop being cruel, and show some compassion!
For what? Show's over, dude. The jury's gone home, and even the media is packing it in for the night. How about showing some compassion for the five dollars that I lost betting on a "Guilty" verdict?

This trial was no game that you can bet on!

The odds were 20 to 1 against a "Guilty" verdict. How could I pass that up? Even a Manslaughter conviction would've put $100 in my pocket.

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An innocent child that's dead, and his parents, will never get justice against the man that murdered him!

So?

What are you going to DO about it?

As I said, "Show's over".

Deal with it!



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13 Jul 2013, 11:22 pm

Fnord wrote:
CBRVA83 wrote:
Fnord wrote:
CBRVA83 wrote:
Fnord wrote:
^ Gee, yer honor ... you should really get out more!
How could you be such a cynic?!?!? Stop being cruel, and show some compassion!
For what? Show's over, dude. The jury's gone home, and even the media is packing it in for the night. How about showing some compassion for the five dollars that I lost betting on a "Guilty" verdict?

This trial was no game that you can bet on!

The odds were 20 to 1 against a "Guilty" verdict. How could I pass that up? Even a Manslaughter conviction would've put $100 in my pocket.

CBRVA83 wrote:
An innocent child that's dead, and his parents, will never get justice against the man that murdered him!

So?

What are you going to DO about it?

As I said, "Show's over".

Deal with it!

If you can't post anything nice and respectful on this thread, don't bother posting anything on this thread at all!



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13 Jul 2013, 11:23 pm

I was hoping they'd split the baby with a manslaughter conviction. Z should never have gotten out of his car. we don't need a bunch of vigilantes running around shooting people. this verdict will encourage vigilantes.

the martins can still sue Z for wrongful death. as we saw with OJ, the burden of proof is different in a civil trial.



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13 Jul 2013, 11:31 pm

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If you can't post anything nice and respectful on this thread, don't bother posting anything on this thread at all!

Why, because YOU said so?

Look, kid, I'm bummed out over the verdict, too ... just for different reasons.

Sure, someone is dead, and his killer was acquitted, but that's just how it is ... happens every day.

If you have so much compassion for others, than why not direct it all toward the Congo, where civil strife has caused 2.7 to 5.4 million deaths since 1998? All of the fuss and bother over this ONE case seems rather Stalinesque, to me.

Joseph Stalin wrote:
"One death is a tragedy; one million deaths is a merely a statistic."

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13 Jul 2013, 11:47 pm

It's my opinion that if two people get into a fight and it is at all mutual, which theirs was, then if one pulls out a firearm and kills the other, he should go to prison. If Martin had pulled out a firearm and killed Zimmerman, then I would have been very much in favor of Martin going to prison. Since it was Zimmerman, I think he should have gone to prison.

That said, any time something goes to the jury, there is no telling how they are going to decide. This one was pretty much a tossup.

There was one interesting comment to come out of it, though: Don't bring a sidewalk to a gun fight.



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13 Jul 2013, 11:48 pm

should of never went to trial in the first place
they did not have the evidence to arrest Zimmerman at the scene it was only till the media jumped on it almost a month later

Zimmerman should sue the state for this whole mess he would probably win



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13 Jul 2013, 11:49 pm

CBRVA83 wrote:
THE VERDICT IS WRONG!! !! ZIMMERMAN SHOLD BE LOCKED UP IN PRISON FOR LIFE, NOT INNOCENT AND FREE!! !! :x I feel really bad for Trayvon's parents! :cry:


I think that two to five years would have been appropriate. It's not like he's ever going to repeat it.



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13 Jul 2013, 11:52 pm

Fnord wrote:
Joseph Stalin wrote:
"One death is a tragedy; one million deaths is a merely a statistic."

:roll:


Benjamin Disraeli wrote:
The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.



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13 Jul 2013, 11:56 pm

chris5000 wrote:
should of never went to trial in the first place
they did not have the evidence to arrest Zimmerman at the scene it was only till the media jumped on it almost a month later

Zimmerman should sue the state for this whole mess he would probably win


Hmmm. They didn't arrest Cordell Jude at the scene where he shot Daniel Adkins. Actually, not for several months. Does that mean that this case should never go to trial?

In case you aren't familiar with the case, Daniel Adkins was a late 20s mentally challenged individual who was walking by a Taco Bell in Arizona with his dog. Cordell Jude almost ran into him pulling out from the Taco Bell, Daniel Adkins pounded on the hood of his vehicle once and shook his fist at him. Cordell Jude responded by shooting Daniel Adkins on the spot and then claimed that he felt threatened by Daniel Adkins.



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14 Jul 2013, 1:21 am

eric76 wrote:
chris5000 wrote:
should of never went to trial in the first place
they did not have the evidence to arrest Zimmerman at the scene it was only till the media jumped on it almost a month later

Zimmerman should sue the state for this whole mess he would probably win


Hmmm. They didn't arrest Cordell Jude at the scene where he shot Daniel Adkins. Actually, not for several months. Does that mean that this case should never go to trial?

In case you aren't familiar with the case, Daniel Adkins was a late 20s mentally challenged individual who was walking by a Taco Bell in Arizona with his dog. Cordell Jude almost ran into him pulling out from the Taco Bell, Daniel Adkins pounded on the hood of his vehicle once and shook his fist at him. Cordell Jude responded by shooting Daniel Adkins on the spot and then claimed that he felt threatened by Daniel Adkins.


thats far different then defending yourself from being assaulted and having your head pounded into the sidewalk