POLL: What is your Hope for the Outcome of the Zimmerman Prosecution/Case

[stevenleser]

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I personally hope he is found guilty of the top charge, 2nd Degree Murder and gets 25 to life. How about you?

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	I hope he is found guilty of Top Charge, 2nd Degree Murder
	5 (56%)
	I hope he is found guilty of the lesser included charge of Manslaughter
	1 (11%)
	I hope he gets off
	3 (33%)
	Other/Explain
	0 (0%)
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[Buzz Clik]

1. I want it to end.

[HappyMe]

2. kick

[alc]

3. I hope for a fair trial and impartial jury

I hope the jury members don't have any agenda or pre-determined decision of guilt or innocence that they managed to hide in jury selection. I hope they decide based on prosecution evidence. I think prior actions of defendants (911 calls or arrests) should be used in sentencing, but not in a jury's determination of guilt in a specific crime.

If the evidence for that night convinces the jury of guilt then they should find him guity. If not, we already have too much "this person's history means they probably committed this specific crime and should be locked up" - extending that to non-blacks doesn't help the system. Deciding that he didn't break the law but still should be locked up also doesn't help no matter how bad they think the law is. I'm ok with a jury finding someone not guilty because a law sucks (e.g. marijuana laws) but I'm against finding someone guilty because the jury doesn't like a law (e.g. gun laws).

[pipi_k]

4. You said

everything I was going to.

That's all I hope for.

A fair and impartial jury that tries its best to convict or acquit based on the evidence, and nothing else.

[Fumesucker]

14. Well said, I agree n/t

[stevenleser]

5. Kick nt

[Ruby the Liberal]

6. Revisions to SYG and more stringent firearm regulation

I can dream...

[HappyMe]

8. I would hope that this

trial would be the catalyst for that. Actually, this coupled with Sandy Hook and other senseless gun deaths.

[NCTraveler]

7. I hope that the long-term outcome is that there....

is a strong push to change the current laws.

[Moses2SandyKoufax]

17. Uh, yeah....

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[uppityperson]

10. That he is found guilty of something and imprisoned. Also that changed are made to the law and

people recognize how this all came down, or didn't come down.

[WinkyDink]

11. That justice prevails. Is there really any other decent response?

That I hold an opinion as to the nature of said justice does not detract from the sentiment.

[stevenleser]

12. If what one has learned through research indicates guilt, I think its fair to wish for a guilty

verdict.

One point is not in dispute and that is that Zimmerman initiated this incident in general. There was a kid walking through his neighborhood whose appearance he didnt like and so he decided to confront him in some way.

Without that decision, Martin is alive today. That part is not in dispute. To me, that is enough to assign blame. The rest of the information that has come out is enough for me to say Zimmerman is legally guilty.

[kentuck]

13. It's OJ Simpson in reverse.

He's gonna get away with it and a lot of people are going to be pissed. Just like they were with OJ. A lot of people knew he did it. Just like a lot of people know that Zimmerman did it.

[MH1]

15. In this case he admits the killing.

The only question is whether it was "justifiable".

Which is bizarre, in my mind. A**hole puts himself in a situation that he can only get out of by killing an innocent person, and he expects to walk?

[etherealtruth]

20. That's just it ...

Most is known .... there is no ambiguous moral ground

[L0oniX]

16. Flame bait. n/t

[Nye Bevan]

18. I voted guilty of manslaughter.

There is no way that the evidence presented so far proves murder beyond a reasonable doubt. And the defense case has not even begun. So a verdict of murder would indicate a rogue jury.

[Spirochete]

19. A fair, unbiased judgement

based on the evidence presented, and not on anyone's personal prejudices.

[premium]

21. I want the right verdict

according to the evidence, whatever the verdict is, guilty or not guilty.

[egduj]

22. My ideal scenario would be guilty of manslaughter with a suspended sentence.

He's not a danger to anyone, any longer, so nothing constructive would come from him going to jail. The felony charge would prevent him from ever legally owning a gun again, and prevent him from being a cop or security guard.

The felony charge would also grease the way for a wrongful death lawsuit, and if he's out in the world with a job, it would benefit the Martins by being able to cash in on that wrongful death lawsuit.