Subj : Trayvon Martin
To   : ALL
From : BOB KLAHN
Date : Wed Jul 24 2013 12:21:44


 Ok, Trayvon Martin is back in the headlines.

 My interpretation:

 TV once more did it's damage. Just as in the OJ trial it looks
 like the judge and lawyers played to the cameras. No trial
 should be broadcast.

 As to the outcome, the prosecution was so inept, so incompetent,
 it appears the prosecutor didn't want to win that case. She felt
 she had to take it to trial, but winning it might have been bad
 for her politically. So she overcharged and conducted the worst
 prosecution she could. Or so it appears.

 This same prosecutor got a black woman convicted for firing a
 warning shot when she felt threatened by her ex-husband. That
 woman got something like 20 years for not killing him. Seems
 stand your ground only works one way.

 That case stinks of politics from the beginning. The shooter is
 the son of a retired judge. The original detective wanted to
 charge him with manslaughter. A cop on the scene called it
 negligent manslaughter in his report. Yet it wasn't even
 investigated as a possible crime after that, until
 demonstrations began. Top brass did not want it prosecuted.

 Get the cameras out of the courtroom, and enforce the law
 equally.

BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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