Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
lady, you were on the jury; if you thought he was guilty of murder, why didn\u2019t you convict him? \u201cThe law couldn\u2019t prove it.\u201d <\/p>\n
Now wait a minute. If the law couldn\u2019t prove he committed murder, then he didn\u2019t commit murder. You are the one who sat through the entire trial, heard all the evidence, heard the jury instruction, and found him not guilty. \u201cMurder\u201d is a specific crime. He didn\u2019t commit murder. You said so. <\/p>\n
Yes, Zimmerman killed a man. Lots of soldiers and cops have killed men, too. But none of them committed \u201cmurder.\u201d<\/p>\n
She\u2019s accusing him of a horrible crime that she, herself, decided he didn\u2019t commit. That\u2019s slander. Somebody should tell her to pipe down.<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
When I first heard the story, the first thing I thought was “George Zimmerman should have a pretty righteous defamation case”. <\/p>\n
The second? I think it was PJ O’Rourke who said the problem with our justice system is that your fate is decided by 12 people who couldn’t get out of jury duty…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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