The future George Zimmerman Acquittal Trial Megathread!

[Admiral Yi]

Has anyone been following the trial? Has anything changed that makes it look like Zimmerman might actually get convicted or does it still sort of seem like a crime the prosecution has no hope of proving beyond reasonable doubt? I wasn't able to sustain much interest in this case after the first few months of the drama when it first started so haven't followed the trial at all.

I think the chances of a guilty verdict are very slim.  5-1 against?

[Malthus]

Be prepared for the reaction in the rest of the world, ignorant of the niceties of US law or of the details of the trial, to assume that a "not guilty" verdict was caused by the victim being guilty of first-degree aggrivated negritude while knowingly and willfully inhabiting Florida. 

[Siege]

Oscar Grant's shit didn't end well. Riots and shit after that german cop that shot him got adquited.

[Kleves]

Be prepared for the reaction in the rest of the world, ignorant of the niceties of US law or of the details of the trial, to assume that a "not guilty" verdict was caused by the victim being guilty of first-degree aggrivated negritude while knowingly and willfully inhabiting Florida. 

I thought Seedy was American. 

[Siege]

He was.

[katmai]

So sayeth the Chink double agent.

[Caliga]

Be prepared for the reaction in the rest of the world

The rest of the world can kiss our asses.  USA!  USA!  USA!

[Admiral Yi]

Only way to make Europe happy would be to find Zimmerman guilty of first degree murder and put him away for 9 months.

[Caliga]

Only way to make Europe happy would be to find Zimmerman guilty of first degree murder and put him away for 9 months.

[CountDeMoney]

Trayvon's mother is on the stand this AM.

Lawyers have the worst tact dealing with dead kids' Moms.  No knock knock jokes from O'Mara, but man.

[Kleves]

Lawyers have the worst tact dealing with dead kids' Moms.  No knock knock jokes from O'Mara, but man.

Yeah, there's not much you're likely to get on cross examination from her, and you can easily come off looking like a dick when you're going after mom. I saw a trial once where a mother was on the stand as an alibi witness for her son. The prosecutor got up and asked, "You love your son very much, don't you?" "Yes." Cross-examination over. That's all he needed to get to be able to argue in closing that the mother was a biased witness, and he didn't come out of it looking like a douche. I thought that was a good strategy.

[OttoVonBismarck]

Yeah, with limited exceptions if I was on a jury or some sort of judge tryer-of-fact in a different system I would give the testimony of mothers very little weight when it came to their children. I'm a father and I would say pretty much anything on the stand to get someone I blamed for my child's murder convicted.

[Barrister]

Lawyers have the worst tact dealing with dead kids' Moms.  No knock knock jokes from O'Mara, but man.

Yeah, there's not much you're likely to get on cross examination from her, and you can easily come off looking like a dick when you're going after mom. I saw a trial once where a mother was on the stand as an alibi witness for her son. The prosecutor got up and asked, "You love your son very much, don't you?" "Yes." Cross-examination over. That's all he needed to get to be able to argue in closing that the mother was a biased witness, and he didn't come out of it looking like a douche. I thought that was a good strategy.

Yup - few points to be made with moms and girlfriends.

[CountDeMoney]

I didn't get where he thought he was going with asking her if it wasn't her son's voice, would it be in her opinion of somebody's screams who caused their own death.  Squirrelly line of questioning, and really the wrong way to bait a Mom.

[Siege]

Wait, that fat welfare chick was Tryvon's girlfriend?