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Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder

Posted by samzenpus on from the up-to-the-jury dept.

George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who shot Trayvon Martin, was charged with second-degree murder. He faces up to life in prison if convicted in the shooting. From the article: "Special prosecutor Angela Corey announced the charges but would not discuss how she arrived at them or disclose other details of her investigation, saying: 'That's why we try cases in court.' Second-degree murder is typically brought in cases when there is a fight or other confrontation that results in death and but does [not] involve a premeditated plan to kill. Corey would not disclose Zimmerman's whereabouts for his safety but said that he will be in court within 24 hours."

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  1. Good luck with that fair trial thing by gelfling · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    MSNBC has already been saying for 44 days that the only 'justice' is a conviction. I kind of hope George is murdered in the court room or barring that if he's found not guilty somehow that there's a Rodney King style 3 day race riot that leaves 30 dead.

    1. Re:Good luck with that fair trial thing by WindBourne · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Do not even have to be liberal to watch CNN. I like to balance it with BBC as well as Al Jazerra. Both seem to have good info that we miss here. And faux news is like reading national inquirer or pravda. All have humorous points, but nothing is close to accurate.

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    2. Re:Good luck with that fair trial thing by BasilBrush · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Meanwhile, the surveys always show it's the Fox News viewers who are the most misinformed.

    3. Re:Good luck with that fair trial thing by BasilBrush · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      No, the normal procedure would have been to keep a killer in custody until they decided whether to charge him with murder or not.

    4. Re:Good luck with that fair trial thing by RightSaidFred99 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

      This is exactly why Zimmerman will be found guilty no matter the facts. What juror wants to be labeled racist by a nation full of stupid cunts like you?

  2. Talk about media bias by XPeter · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    This entire case is a crock of bullshit. When two black teens set a white kid on fire, a clear hate crime, it hardly gets a column in the local news. But when a hispanic guy kills a black teen it garnishes national media attention?

    Fuck Sharpton and Jackson, where were they then? Did Obama come out and say "If I had a son, he'd look like Coon"?

    Source: http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-03-04/news/31122324_1_white-boy-fire-tv-station
    Recent photos of Trayvon: http://i39.tinypic.com/1yvg5h.jpg

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    1. Re:Talk about media bias by XPeter · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Right, because OJ got what he deserved /sarcasm

      Sharpton rouses the liberal media into thinking that if you look white, and have harmed a minority, then it's automatically a hate crime. A wannabe cop committed a crime, and it should be charged just as such. There is no evidence of "hate" here.

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  3. Re:Bad Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Given the number of firearm nerd commentators I've seen, I wouldn't be so sure.

    The gun nut culture overlaps with nerd culture a great deal. And this story is a big deal to the former, since it's essentially a story about a gun owner acting out his own personal Batman fantasy - or maybe Punisher fantasy would be a more appropriate comparison. He deliberately put himself in a position where he could shoot another human being and claim self defence. Standard example of why there ought to be more safeguards to keep firearms out of the hands of people who consider them toys, or personal fetishes. I've seen plenty of people on here discuss this kind of thing before the shooting occurred.

    The race angle is almost secondary to slashdot's interest. Not that we don't have more than our fair share of the cross burning crowd, but the site doesn't pander to them (else the rest of us sane folk would abandon it). The gun angle and the line between vigilantism and legitimate self defence does have an audience here.

  4. Stand your ground, kill a black guy, get a coupon by PopeRatzo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    These "Stand Your Ground" Laws that we have thanks to ALEC and the NRA are meant only to protect white people who shoot blacks, Hispanics, Muslims, etc.

    Have a look at how "Stand Your Ground" is applied when it's the other way around.

    Funny, I didn't hear anything from the NRA and the right-wing media in that Georgia case. But I did hear a right-wing talker today talking about how the increasing American sense that race relations are deteriorating is Barack Obama's fault.

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