How about the phone calls where he makes remarks about Trayvon's race?
NBC is screwed. They will settle this thing out of court. Zimmerman will be a millionaire until the civil jury awards all that money to Martin's family.
NBC is screwed. They will settle this thing out of court. Zimmerman will be a millionaire until the civil jury awards all that money to Martin's family.
aren't you able to have immunity in florida for stand your ground? I bet zimmerman is now going to go ahead and get immunity from civil action, and he'll probably get it.
You think NBC will have to pay for playing the tape the way they did?
I thought it wasn't stand your ground though?
My politico app just announced the DOJ is looking into the case and whether or not it can be prosecuted under federal criminal civil rights law.
The trial that we just saw was not stand your ground. That was regular self defense. Before the trial in april he could have had a stand your ground hearing but he waived it.
He was found not guilty on straight up self defense, this was not a unique stand your ground law, as so many idiots keep thinking. He was found not guilty by the same self defense laws that every single state has.
Now that the trial is over, he can go back to the stand your ground hearing and ask for immunity. He already has been found not guilty criminally so that part wont apply, but he can still get immunity from civil suits. Which he will probably succeed in getting.
it's not going to happen.
First the burden of proof is insanely high. They are going to have to prove that he killed trayvon specifically because trayvon was black. That's basically higher than the burden of 2nd degree murder.
I also think that the government isn't going to want to drag this on, keep the public riled up, they want peace and for people to go back to their lives. Plus imagine if zimmerman wins a second case. How many times do you want to be kicked in the face?
My politico app just announced the DOJ is looking into the case and whether or not it can be prosecuted under federal criminal civil rights law.
How about the phone calls where he makes remarks about Trayvon's race?
Federal law probably doesn't apply, said David Weinstein, a former federal prosecutor in Miami. Unlike the police officers in the King case, Zimmerman wasn't acting "under color of law."
There also is little basis to charge Zimmerman with a federal hate crime, Weinstein said, since prosecutors would have to show that he shot and killed Martin primarily because of the teen's race. Nothing in the state trial suggested it was a racially motivated crime, he said.
"Under the law, there is no basis for them to file any charges," Weinstein said about the Department of Justice.
Under public pressure, he added, the Justice Department may send lawyers to Florida to investigate the case so they can write a report that says "there was nothing there."
"That may satisfy people," Weinstein said.
http://www.greenwichtime.com/news/c...ns-at-center-of-Zimmerman-verdict-4664900.php