In the next few hours and days you'll likely be inundated with analysis and commentary and solemn expressions of outrage or joy about what the acquittal of George Zimmerman means -- to the nation, to its rule of law, to its politics, to its racial divide, to its deadly obsession with guns, to Florida's ALEC-infused justice system, and to probably 100 other things I can't list off the top of my head. This is what happens when a verdict comes down in a high-profile criminal trial -- when life or liberty are on the line and the country is split, and angrily so, upon the wisdom and the justice of the outcome.
To me, on its most basic level, the startling Zimmerman verdict -- and the case and trial that preceded it -- is above all a blunt reminder of the limitations of our justice system. Criminal trials are not searches for the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. They never have been. Our rules of evidence and the Bill of Rights preclude it. Our trials are instead tests of only that limited evidence a judge declares fit to be shared with jurors, who in turn are then admonished daily, hourly even, not to look beyond the corners of what they've seen or heard in court.
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5 comments:
Was it not for the gun Zimmermam would be dead.
Why are we now not hearing about his rants and gang tatoos that he showed of himself on the internet. Also that he had just before his death threatened a bus driver and the day he died was omitted from school for his behavior, these are facts too that came to light. I can understand a family being distraught regardless because their son is dead, but don't forget his participation in things. Just look at the whole picture and the time the jury took to go over everything and they were females and I'm sure some of them mothers, aunts and daughters.
Yup. 7:30. Trevon was a thug. Shame he died but when you start beating the crap out of someone there is a price to pay.
I sure hope GZ gets his gun back. They sure are hard to come by these days.
Kudos to the defense team for choosing to NOT besmirch the victim. They very well could have, but they didn't.
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