sunshinehighway
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It was just announced on CNN. He is going to be charged. They haven't announced what he'll be charged with yet.
I saw on another website that he is going to be charged with second degree murder. I guess we'll find out for sure in a little while.It was just announced on CNN. He is going to be charged. They haven't announced what he'll be charged with yet.
Me too. I hope a jury would have the option to vote for manslaughter, because if the prosecutor swings for the fence on murder and comes up short there might be an acquittal. In the reading I've done, an "imperfect self-defense" is often deemed as involuntary manslaughter... but I don't know the particulars of Florida law.yup second degree. I had been thinking it'd be manslaughter.
I think you're stopping a bit short there... I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that the family will also want nothing less than a conviction too.This is all the family ever wanted - a trial where all the facts could be presented.
I saw on another website that he is going to be charged with second degree murder. I guess we'll find out for sure in a little while.
This is all the family ever wanted - a trial where all the facts could be presented.
yup second degree. I had been thinking it'd be manslaughter.
It's probably not manslaughter because when he called 911 he was very deliberately asked if he was following Trayvon and told NOT to follow him. The moment he went against what dispatch told him, he went outside of the law - with gun in hand, and there was some premeditation to his actions.
Where did you hear or read that he followed him with gun in hand?
If he didn't have a gun on him, how would he have shot Trayvon?
But having a gun on him is very different than following him "gun in hand".
But having a gun on him is very different than following him "gun in hand".
It sounds like the central argument will be over whether Zimmerman's approaching (if that's what happened) of Martin, against the advice of the dispatcher, was an "imminently dangerous" act by a "depraved" mind. In another words, would it be reasonable to believe that it would be likely necessary to kill someone if you approached them in that situation.The unlawful killing of a human being, when perpetrated by any act imminently dangerous to another and evincing a depraved mind regardless of human life, although without any premeditated design to effect the death of any particular individual,
I am glad there will be a trial where evidence will be presented. I feel no matter what in this case people have already made up their minds. I feel if he is found guilty there is still people that would think he was not and the same for the other side.
For the record, Florida defines 2nd degree murder as:It sounds like the central argument will be over whether Zimmerman's approaching (if that's what happened) of Martin, against the advice of the dispatcher, was an "imminently dangerous" act. In another words, would it be reasonable to believe that it would be likely necessary to kill someone if you approached them in that situation.
Isn't that generally the way it is with any high profile case? Everyone has their opinion and you just won't please everyone. All I want is a fair trial. I do believe Zimmerman is guilty of, at minimum, reckless endangerment. I hope the jury is given other charges besides 2nd degree murder and I hope they are smart enough to understand those other options. I don't want to see another Casey Anthony circus.