Florida has never been a state in which I have ever wished to live. Its cockroaches, alligators, bugs and other things are too daunting for me. The politicians are worse than all the natural predators to man put together. The elderly who move down there seem somewhat clueless to it all as they dip in the pool, drink their cocktails , and talk about their ailments and what clever and useful things they did in the in their working lives 15 to 30 years ago when they retired.
50 or so days after Trayvon Martin was shot to death by a self-appointed vigilante, excused by the equally racially prejudiced local, Sanford police department, behaving like the old sitcom Sanford and Son. We hear today that charges will be pressed to the shooter, Zimmerman. Mr. Zimmerman is lawyerless and, from what is reported, turned himself in put into custody. The eggs are getting fried by the Florida sun on the faces of the local law 'unenforecment' department.
Mr. Zimmerman has now been told he will be charged with second degree murder. It will not be a jury trial but will only be before a judge. Without a jury trial, proof is handled quite different with evidence. Most agree that it should be a jury trial because of the questions and do not feel that one person, a judge, should make unilateral decisions.
Yahoo News reports that Zimmerman is emotionally crippled by this whole event (which must never be forgotten is entirely by his own actions and instigation). If justice and police departments with integrity are to be believed, this should be handled in the fairest and most judicious way possible. Every person should be entitled to a jury trial, isn't that what we have been advised for many years?
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