While everyone has their own interpretation of the newly released documents made public last week surrounding the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman case, the stance on Zimmerman’s guilt or innocence is in question now more than ever.
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According to the Daily Beast’s David R. Dow, not only will Zimmerman be acquitted of murdering Trayvon, but the case will never see the inside of a courtroom, in part because of Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law.
Dow sites three main reasons why Zimmerman will walk free:
One: First, special prosecutor Angela Corey’s statement last month that public pressure had nothing to do with the decision to bring charges against George Zimmerman is exposed for the bunk that it always was. Two weeks after the shooting, well before the story went national, a principal investigating officer recommended arresting Zimmerman on manslaughter charges…..I’m not sure if bowing to public pressure in deciding to prosecute is a bad thing, but I do think dishonesty about one’s motives is bad.
Two: If the case against Zimmerman ever reaches a jury (which it probably won’t), there is no chance he will be convicted.
Of course, Corey is an experienced prosecutor who must know this, which only further reveals the role public pressure played in her decision to indict. Why won’t Zimmerman be convicted? Because we now know everything the jury is going to know.
Three: The tragedy of this case—and there is no other word to describe the killing of a young man who has done nothing wrong and nothing to arouse any reasonable suspicion that he had—is a product of the interaction between two insidious factors: racism and state-sanctioned aggression.
From the documents revealed last week, it’s clear that Zimmerman started the chain of events and everything could have been avoided. Hopefully Dow is incorrect and Zimmerman faces time for what he did.
SOURCE: The Daily Beast
