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Ming7/17/2012 10:25:20 pm PDT

re: #212 Ming

So if a jury gives Zimmerman the benefit of the doubt in regard to the final few minutes of this tragedy, I can accept that. But as far as I’m concerned, there’s already enough evidence in the public domain to convict Zimmerman on lesser charges.

I just thought of the felony murder rule, which makes me disagree somewhat with my own previous comment. With the felony murder rule, if you’re driving the getaway car, and your accomplices murder someone in the store they’re robbing, while you’re waiting in the car, you can still be convicted of first-degree murder. The idea is that you made the murder possible, even though you obviously didn’t commit the murder yourself.

In the same way, Zimmerman’s reckless endangerment, which thanks to the 911 tapes is already in the public record, made Trayvon’s death possible in the first place.

So I would modify my earlier comment a bit to say that if a jury gives Zimmerman the benefit of the doubt, in regard to those terrible final minutes or seconds with Trayvon, that may be reasonable for the jury to do, but nevertheless I think the penalty should still be much worse than the penalty for “only” reckless endangerment, because (as with the felony murder rule), the sentencing judge should consider that Zimmerman initiated the entire tragic situation in the first place.