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Chrysicat2/21/2014 8:34:30 am PST

re: #282 sattv4u2


But we’ve seen that the system is in fact stacked in his favor.

How so?
He was convicted of 4 out of the 5 charges

The one that the jury was hung on was a reach (imho) for the prosecution. How to prove pre-meditation in a case where the victims and perp just happened to be in the same place at the same time

Oh, not this canard again.

In Florida, the prosecution isn’t limited to the specific charge they originally bring regarding a given victim. In this case, not only did the judge order the jury to consider Second Degree murder, he ordered them to consider MANSLAUGHTER.
They still hung.
Someone on that jury considered shooting a young unarmed black man to be completely justifiable.

Any more MBFs you want to summon this fine morn?