Signs?MEME's and the like!

[Wickabee]

You don't have to pay as much but treatments start in two years...good luck bro!

My MS treatments started same day.

[Wickabee]

Why would the media waste their team beating on a dead horse?

Because nothing has ever stopped them before?

[notes2us]

You are right. Any kid or adult for that matter should have the person who killed them be bought to justice. At least in one of the two cases you mentioned there is a good chance of that happening. If we as the black community would not have stood up and demanded justice the Trayvon case probably would have not even gone as far as it did. Again in the Marley case his killers were caught and jailed right away and will all but certianly be convicted with good chance of execution. Why would the media waste their team beating on a dead horse?

That, my friend, is the million dollar question.

[notes2us]

You are right. Any kid or adult for that matter should have the person who killed them be bought to justice. At least in one of the two cases you mentioned there is a good chance of that happening. If we as the black community would not have stood up and demanded justice the Trayvon case probably would have not even gone as far as it did. Again in the Marley case his killers were caught and jailed right away and will all but certianly be convicted with good chance of execution. Why would the media waste their team beating on a dead horse?

I do not 100% agree with you on this one. There were issues with the investigation and how the police handled the case, but I believe the arrest would have happened regardless. Now, IMO, I feel the media attention brought to this case actually hurt the prosecution. They were so sure they would win because of what was going on in the media. Well, they were wrong. They did not build a strong enough case to support the murder charge. I feel the prosecution might have had a better chance of winning with no media attention, because they could have focused on building their case instead of relying on the media to do it for them.

[mrveggieman]

I do not 100% agree with you on this one. There were issues with the investigation and how the police handled the case, but I believe the arrest would have happened regardless. Now, IMO, I feel the media attention brought to this case actually hurt the prosecution. They were so sure they would win because of what was going on in the media. Well, they were wrong. They did not build a strong enough case to support the murder charge. I feel the prosecution might have had a better chance of winning with no media attention, because they could have focused on building their case instead of relying on the media to do it for them.

I don't disagree with that at all. The state played a huge roll in dropping the ball and letting a guilty man walk the streets.

[habsheaven]

The media's only affect on this case was that a charge was ever laid. Without the media (I am including the spokespeople for the Martin's here), this situation would have been forgotten. Once a case was brought, there simply was no evidence to support the charges. That is why charges were not filed to begin with. Sometimes the truth is hard to accept.

[MadMan1978]

[MadMan1978]

[Wickabee]

I do not 100% agree with you on this one. There were issues with the investigation and how the police handled the case, but I believe the arrest would have happened regardless. Now, IMO, I feel the media attention brought to this case actually hurt the prosecution. They were so sure they would win because of what was going on in the media. Well, they were wrong. They did not build a strong enough case to support the murder charge. I feel the prosecution might have had a better chance of winning with no media attention, because they could have focused on building their case instead of relying on the media to do it for them.

THANK YOU!

As I wrote somewhere else, the prosecution was watching TV when they should have been building a case. The courts of media and public opinion hold no bearing on a case and, in reality, that's the way it should be. The media, however, paints things as they aren't for their own reasons. Here in BC they split the entire province in two politically simply by calling for the leftist party to win in a landslide only to see them lose in same fashion. Why did they lose? They were overconfident and stopped campaigning 3 weeks too early, letting the province know they didn't actually give a damn.

The same thing happened here. The media called a slam dunk and the prosecution tried to take that to the bank. The check bounced, as it always does.

[MadMan1978]