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Justice for Zimmerman
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Gavinmad
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Well right I was just supporting your bit about criminal court not meaning much in civil court.
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Adebisi
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+ slightly used hoodie
edit - I really don't like how the prosecution gets to shoot for the moon with murder 2 and throw in all these lessers. It has got to create situations where a jury feels like they need to give some form of punishment even if the initial charge is too great but wouldn't have done that if the case was just about that lesser charge from the start.
Cad, the Martin family supposedly won a settlement against HOA. If Zimmerman is found not guilty and not guilty in civil court, does the HOA have to pay out?
He would likely use syg defense to avoid civil court all together with wining the criminal case as proof of self defense.
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If it was a settlement agreement, almost certainly not; no findings would have been made. But it would depend on the language of the settlement. Most likely no, though.
Hoss
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If trademark's family has no assets, he should sue them for the trademarks they took out on their son's name and any profits they have received from that, or any book deals in the future. Basically, just make sure they don't profit from their son beating the shit out of him.
Cad, without asking you what type of law you practice, in your opinion, is that just normal animosity displayed by the judge to the defense or is their evidence of the judge really personally having issues with the defense?
Don't know if you understand my question.
Don't know if you understand my question.
Famm
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I've been wondering about that every time people mention Manslaughter in the thread. They can just bring lesser chargesnow, or what's the deal? Everywhere I read says Murder 2 and nothing else. I thought you had to be charged with specific shit prior to trial, or at the least indicted. Am I misunderstanding or does it vary from State to State?
Zodiac
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In Texas i suppose he would be talking about this
Anyone can can bring suit sure, but it should be tossed as a summary judgment.
Not sure if FL has an equivalent
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In these last minutes or so of the trial they've just been tacking on everything. I have no idea how it works but I don't like it!
Stand your ground applies immunity in civil court here. If he walks criminally then syg would be almost certain in civil. Which means not much more than a single hearing.
iannis
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I thought that as well about the charges, that you had to decide BEFORE the trial what you actually thought he might be guilty of. But apparently you just have to decide the worst thing you think he might be guilty of and then when you close just say, "Oh yeah -- he could still be guilty of anything lesser we didn't actually argue he was guilty of".
Zimmerman found guilty on charges of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to injure.
Zimmerman found guilty on charges of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to injure.
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I just think it can create situations where the jury feels obligated to stick him with something because hey, we do have a dead body. He's got to be guilty of something right? Discharge of a weapon that leads to a death sounds like what he did so we'll do that.
Bam, 20 years.
Bam, 20 years.
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Judges are biased and all and I've seen some personally that are pretty rowdy. This one is pretty bad though, probably toward the worst end of the scale. It's not "normal" but it's not terribly unusual either.
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