Posted: Jul 15, 2013 8:34 pm
Byron wrote:Judging by the prosecutorial horrorshow at his trial, with star billing given to a barely-coherent witness who causally used racial slurs and incriminated the alleged victim of the same, and forensics that corroborated the defense account to the letter, the original assessment was correct. This should never have gone to trial.
It's also a strong argument for incorporating the grand jury requirement of the 5th amendment against the states. Doing that would address some of the actual racist abuses of our criminal justice system against blacks, unlike the persecution of Zimmerman in this trial.
Byron wrote:purplerat wrote:It's an issue across the country as a whole. I didn't mean specifically this police department or DA nor did I mean that a black George Zimmerman should have been prosecuted this way. But there are piles of evidence regarding racial imbalance in the US criminal justice system.
But not, it appears, in this instance.
I think the prosecution in this case actually did involve racism - just not racism against blacks.