Whoa -- she just essentially admitted that this is not "excusable" or "justifiable" homicide! nt

[gateley]

Adding -- that if it had been, it wouldn't have gone to the "degree" designation.

[Booster]

1. She wouldn't have charged him with 2nd degree murder is it was either one.

[Motown_Johnny]

2. She wouldn't have arrested him if she thought it was justifiable

and there wouldn't be any charges.

[elleng]

3. Right; she was describing the process.

Definition of Second Degree Murder
The crime of Second Degree Murder occurs when a person commits either:

•Murder with a Depraved Mind or
•Accomplice Felony Murder

[indepat]

5. Doesn't speak well of the initial whitewashing of Zimmerman's

actions.

[elleng]

6. Initial whitewashing by whom?

[HooptieWagon]

15. Sanford Police, and SA.

[qazplm]

11. basically

it's unpremeditated murder.

[elleng]

13. Murder with a Depraved Mind

Murder with a Depraved Mind occurs when a person is killed, without any premeditated design, by an act imminently dangerous to another and evincing a depraved mind showing no regard for human life.

The primary distinction between Premeditated First Degree Murder and Second Degree Murder with a Depraved Mind is that First Degree Murder requires a specific and premeditated intent to kill.

http://www.richardhornsby.com/crimes/homicide/second-degree-murder.html#Depraved-Mind

[hack89]

4. So much for SYG being a license to murder. nt

[onehandle]

7. Prosecutor-speak. Don't get excited. nt

[former9thward]

8. This is the prosecutor!

What else do you think she would have said?

[cali]

9. well yeah. and she didn't "admit it"

that's why she's charged him with 2nd degree murder.

[gateley]

10. I could have used a better word. Intimated? Suggested? And once

I posted this and saw all the responses, I'm thinking D'oh! Of COURSE, otherwise these charges wouldn't have been brought.

[quaker bill]

12. Aleged is the appropriate term

The prosecutor's job is to level alegations and try them. The judge and jury get to pick "justifiable" or not.

[TheWraith]

14. I think that bridge was crossed when charges were filed. nt