Trayvon Martin

[habsheaven]

Don't you think it would re-enforce that this is not political? Almost all high profile cases get indictments first and it is required for all "capital and infamous crimes" Federal cases.

The Supreme Court ruled that states do NOT have to have grand juries, but today 21 require them. Florida doesn't require, but does have the option. In Federal crimes, it is required:



http://campus.udayton.edu/~grandjur/stategj/abolish.htm

So, my point is that if you have a strong case and this is not politically motivated, why not use the grand jury option? I'd be curious to see if this prosecutor used the grand jury system for lesser charges.

I agree with you.

[duwal]

That's the thing that really concern's me. If the people of Florida are so heartless they can let a woman who killed her own child get off no telling what they do with the Trayvon case.

especially since it isn't quite clear how much Trayvon attacked Zimmerman

[mikesilvia]

I agree with you.

[shrewsbury]

what's with all this crazy agreement stuff?!!!!!

i would like to know if she has used the GJ for lesser crimes

[mikesilvia]

Several more neighbors have come out.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...83F19Y20120416

[habsheaven]

I will reserve judgement on all of these eye-witness accounts. My question is this: If Zimmerman has these injuries from the altercation, where are the pictures that should exist of them? Trust me, if I just shot someone the night before because I was being roughed up, I would be documenting my injuries for all to see. I would not be relying on my neighbors to notice bandages on my person in the days after to substaniate my case.

[duane1969]

I will reserve judgement on all of these eye-witness accounts. My question is this: If Zimmerman has these injuries from the altercation, where are the pictures that should exist of them? Trust me, if I just shot someone the night before because I was being roughed up, I would be documenting my injuries for all to see. I would not be relying on my neighbors to notice bandages on my person in the days after to substaniate my case.

That is one of the things that mainstream media is not being criticized enough for. They released the first 20 or 30 seconds of the video of Zimmerman getting out of the police car and said that it showed no evidence of him having a broken nose or injuries. What they didn't show was the next 20 or 30 seconds that showed an officer examining injuries on the back of his head or the section of video which does appear to show injuries and blood and corroborate previous claims that Martin was on top of Zimmerman bashing his head onto the concrete.

[habsheaven]

That is one of the things that mainstream media is not being criticized enough for. They released the first 20 or 30 seconds of the video of Zimmerman getting out of the police car and said that it showed no evidence of him having a broken nose or injuries. What they didn't show was the next 20 or 30 seconds that showed an officer examining injuries on the back of his head or the section of video which does appear to show injuries and blood and corroborate previous claims that Martin was on top of Zimmerman bashing his head onto the concrete.

CNN, right from the start, showed the FULL video, including everything you mentioned above. The commentary even mentions the officer examining the back of his head. And for the record, I am talking about actual photos (you know, the kind of self-portraits you see all over the net), those arm-length shots.

[duane1969]

CNN, right from the start, showed the FULL video, including everything you mentioned above. The commentary even mentions the officer examining the back of his head.

I don't watch CNN much. They repeat the same news over and over and get boring fast, so I missed their feed. MSNBC and the cable news feeds that I saw all just showed Zimmerman getting out of the police car and said that he didn't appear to have a broken nose or show any blood from a broken nose. The closest any of them came to being unbiased was when one commentator pointed out that Zimmerman's coat was red and wouldn't show blood stains.

[habsheaven]

I don't watch CNN much. They repeat the same news over and over and get boring fast, so I missed their feed. MSNBC and the cable news feeds that I saw all just showed Zimmerman getting out of the police car and said that he didn't appear to have a broken nose or show any blood from a broken nose. The closest any of them came to being unbiased was when one commentator pointed out that Zimmerman's coat was red and wouldn't show blood stains.

You are right. It can get boring fast. Each hourly show repeats the same stories over and over all night unless it is a breaking story. I try to catch an hour a night. That is all you really need to keep up to date on their daily spin.