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To: steve harris who wrote (726087)	7/13/2013 8:21:32 AM
From: FJB	1 Recommendation Recommended By joseffy Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576827

Another of Obammy's sons in action. Robs blind elderly man twice. Leaves him unconscious second tim. Mugger Robs Elderly Blind Man Twice in Queensbridge Houses, Cops Say By Jeanmarie Evelly on July 11, 2013 4:07pm dnainfo.com

To: steve harris who wrote (726087)	7/13/2013 10:37:59 AM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Respond to of 1576827

Dershowitz: Zimmerman Prosecutors 'Should Be Disbarred' ............................................................................................................... 7/12/2013 \| Bill Hoffmann newsmax.com Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz says the prosecutors in the George Zimmerman murder trial should be charged with "prosecutorial misconduct" for suggesting the defendant planned the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin. "That is something no prosecutor should be allowed to get away with … to make up a story from whole cloth," Dershowitz told "The Steve Malzberg Show" on Newsmax TV. "These prosecutors should be disbarred. They have acted absolutely irresponsibly in an utterly un-American fashion." In the prosecution's final argument on Friday, lawyer John Guy said Zimmerman deliberately followed Martin and "shot him because he wanted to." Dershowitz called Guy's statement "such speculation. How does he get into the mind of Zimmerman? He hasn't cross-examined him, he hasn't met him. "To ask the jury to believe that is to ask the jury to convict based on complete and utter speculation and that's not the way the law operates." Dershowitz said not only should Zimmerman have not been charged with second-degree murder, but prosecutors should not have pushed to have manslaughter and child abuse added to the list of possible jury verdicts. "[It's] utterly irresponsible. … The idea that the prosecution can try the case on a murder theory and then, at the last minute, substitute manslaughter, even though it seems to be permitted generally under Florida law — it's a big mistake to allow it in a case like this,” he said. "And then the very idea of even suggesting child abuse in a case like this is so irresponsible." Dershowitz praised the closing argument of defense lawyer Mark O'Mara. "He did the right thing by being methodical and factual because this is a case where the prosecution's case is all emotion and the defense case is all factual," the famed civil-rights lawyer said. "Emotionally, obviously everybody can identify with a young, unarmed 17-year-old who ends up dead, and emotionally, as President [Barack] Obama said, he's all of our children." Dershowitz — whose clients have included Claus von Bulow, Mike Tyson, Patricia Hearst, and former televangelist Jim Bakker — said the case has "reasonable doubt" written all over it. "Nobody knows who started the initial physical encounter, who threw the first blow — and if you don't know that you have to have a reasonable doubt," he said. "Nobody knows for sure who screamed, 'Help me, help me.' You have to have a reasonable doubt about that. Nobody knows for sure who was on top and who was on bottom, though the overwhelming forensic evidence suggests that Zimmerman was on the bottom having his head banged by a younger, stronger man. You have to have reasonable doubt there." newsmax.com

To: steve harris who wrote (726087)	7/13/2013 10:58:49 AM
From: zax	Read Replies (15) \| Respond to of 1576827

A man was followed and shot dead as he returned from a store. The legal presumption is not that the dead man had it coming. The burden on Mr. Zimmerman to justify the use of deadly force is not one he will meet. He will go to jail for a very long time.

To: steve harris who wrote (726087)	7/13/2013 12:10:29 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576827

If someone was beating the crap out of you and you had a gun, would you use it? It's about more than someone beating the crap out of you. The evidence shows that it is likely that Trayvon ambushed George. If it's two guys who get in a fight at a bar, that's one thing. That's two guys with too much testosterone at work. When you have a guy getting ambushed at night and getting coldcocked with one punch, he has every right to think that the other party has criminal intent and that his life truly is in danger. The context of this case makes it clear that this didn't start off as a "fair" fight.