Like most of you, I feel that the shooting of Trayvon Martin was irresponsible, unwarranted, and (given what I know) criminal. There’s no excuse for patrolling your street in a residential area with a gun, looking for trouble. George Zimmerman should have been arrested and charged from the beginning; even if it was established that Mr. Martin threw a few punches at him. Martin was being followed and harassed and was plausibly scared and defensive. A trial is the best way we have to weed out the facts.

That being said, I think Angela Corey is full of crap when she says “we do not prosecute by public pressure or by petition.”

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That’s EXACTLY what Florida is doing. Had there been no public outcry, they would have ignored the shooting of Trayvon Martin.