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Skype Overload Interrupts Zimmerman Trial

Posted by timothy on from the do-you-have-prince-albert-in-a-can? dept.

MouseTheLuckyDog writes "Today during the George Zimmerman trial, an ex-professor of Zimmerman's was allowed to testify via Skype while on vacation. When setting it up the prosecution didn't have the sense to blank the destination account. The result, according to The Smoking Gun, was a flood of callers to the destination account resulting in the connection being terminated and cross examination being done on a cell phone in the witness box." Also at CBS News.

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  1. Whole Trial is bullshit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is an obvious case of self defense, if the thug that attacked Zimmerman wasn't an African-American, there would be no trial. There was too much race baiting and fake charges of murder were trumped up to appease the Martin family.

    My message to the Martin family is clear. If your son was not a THUG, he would be still be here.

    1. Re:Whole Trial is bullshit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

      He tried, but Zimmerman stopped him from getting his gun. At this point I know I would have personally have believed my life was in danger and opened fire on the THUG.

    2. Re:Whole Trial is bullshit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      That story was made up by the damned media and the Martin family to start race riots and blame Republicans. People that actually know anything know that democrats are the racists!

    3. Re:Whole Trial is bullshit by tompaulco · · Score: 1, Troll

      So, if someone is walking around in a place where they should not be, you are not allowed to get out of your car? Why don't we just lock up the law abiding and let the criminals roam free, if we are going to let them dictate our lives like this. Instead he killed somebody.
      Just like most cases of self defense, nobody sets out to kill anybody (well, except for the criminals sometimes), but if somebody jumps you and starts bashing your head against the ground, you have the right to defend yourself.
      It seems clear to me that case by case, the government is trying to take away our rights to defend ourselves. They hand out harsher sentences against people who kill an armed assailant, than they do to assailants who kill an unarmed victim. It's pretty clear the message they are trying to get across: Just let the criminals do whatever they want with no dear of reprisal.

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    4. Re:Whole Trial is bullshit by tompaulco · · Score: -1, Troll

      Couldn't agree more. The only thing they should be trying to decide is what sort of medal to give him for having the courage to defend himself against an assailant.

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    5. Re:Whole Trial is bullshit by lgw · · Score: 1, Troll

      Sure, but Zimmerman thought he was, for whatever reason.

      This is exactly how communities were expected to be, before we all became strangers to our neighbors. "Hey! You there! I don't know you - what are you doing here?" is a perfectly valid thing for a local to ask. Doesn't give the local any right to initiate violence, but certainly doesn't give the person asked the right to initiate violence either. Pretty much no words whatsoever give you the right to attack the person who said them.

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    6. Re:Whole Trial is bullshit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Except Martin's DNA was not on the holster or the gun.

      The only thug here is Zimmerman. If Zimmerman was the aggressor, Martin can use equal force to defend himself. If Martin thought his life was in danger, the response can include deadly force. If Zimmerman showed Martin he had a gun, that is all that is required for Martin to incapacitate Zimmerman.

      You've never been mugged by a pack of blacks.

      When you are, your world view will change.