Ok, Trayvon Martin is back in the headlines.   
      
    My interpretation:   
      
    TV once more did it's damage. Just as in the OJ trial it looks   
    like the judge and lawyers played to the cameras. No trial   
    should be broadcast.   
      
    As to the outcome, the prosecution was so inept, so incompetent,   
    it appears the prosecutor didn't want to win that case. She felt   
    she had to take it to trial, but winning it might have been bad   
    for her politically. So she overcharged and conducted the worst   
    prosecution she could. Or so it appears.   
      
    This same prosecutor got a black woman convicted for firing a   
    warning shot when she felt threatened by her ex-husband. That   
    woman got something like 20 years for not killing him. Seems   
    stand your ground only works one way.   
      
    That case stinks of politics from the beginning. The shooter is   
    the son of a retired judge. The original detective wanted to   
    charge him with manslaughter. A cop on the scene called it   
    negligent manslaughter in his report. Yet it wasn't even   
    investigated as a possible crime after that, until   
    demonstrations began. Top brass did not want it prosecuted.   
      
    Get the cameras out of the courtroom, and enforce the law   
    equally.   
      
   BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn   
      
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