Why hasn't the Neighborhood Watch shooter been arrested?

Apparently not in Florida, it won’t

Anderson Cooper: “You say the shooter was on top?”
Witness: “I can’t really say.”

http://articles.cnn.com/2012-03-29/justice/justice_florida-teen-shooting_1_witness-voices-window?_s=PM:JUSTICE

And then the next time I looked out the window, there’s the same thing: two men on the grass, one on top of each other.

But the witness recalled not having been able to see clearly which man was on top because it was dark.

It was dark. I can’t say I watched him get up, but in a couple of seconds or so he was walking towards where I was watching and I could see him a little bit clearer.

You mean, “If prison sentences deterred ALL people from committing crimes, we wouldn’t have people in prison.”

I am not sure, but I suspect that if one is actually “street” one does not attend school. I may not be using that term correctly, but I think I am.

Where did we get this information?

If “contact” in this context means conversation, and not physical contact - then from Martin’s girlfriend.

So speaking first is now the same as throwing the first punch?

It only doesn’t make sense in your racist fantasy world.

(1). At some point he thinks he loses Z and resumes his walk home but is approached again.

(2) Man, wouldn’t it have been funny if M had called 911 and they were like, “hey, some guy just called about you! You look suspicious.” Then M could have said, “who me, he’s the weirdo following me around!” And then 911 could have cleared the whole thing up and M and Z could have had a good laugh about that one and split a pack of Skittles.

(3) Why would he yell for help? He probably didn’t know his life was in danger. He just wanted to avoid some creeper.

(4) See point 3. Plus, he’s already been made to feel SO welcome in his dad’s gf’s neighborhood.

The rest of what you wrote is nothing but complete bullshit. Add a 1 in front of that 7 and you’ll have it about right; the intelligence of a 17 year old who is kind of freaked out about some guy following him. No one claims he was terrified, but I can assure you that at 17 walking around in an unfamiliar neighborhood at night if some guy was watching me (and possibly following in his truck) I’d sure do my best to avoid him and getting of the main road would be the easiest way to do that.

They can come up for other reasons though.
Statutes & Constitution :View Statutes : Online Sunshine

The 2011 Florida Statutes
Title VII
EVIDENCE
Chapter 90
EVIDENCE CODE

90.404 Character evidence; when admissible.—
(1) CHARACTER EVIDENCE GENERALLY.—Evidence of a person’s character or a trait of character is inadmissible to prove action in conformity with it on a particular occasion, except:
(a) Character of accused.—Evidence of a pertinent trait of character offered by an accused, or by the prosecution to rebut the trait.
(b) Character of victim.—
[INDENT]1. Except as provided in s. 794.022, evidence of a pertinent trait of character of the victim of the crime offered by an accused, or by the prosecution to rebut the trait; or
2. Evidence of a character trait of peacefulness of the victim offered by the prosecution in a homicide case to rebut evidence that the victim was the aggressor.[/INDENT]
(c) Character of witness.—Evidence of the character of a witness, as provided in ss. 90.608-90.610.
(2) OTHER CRIMES, WRONGS, OR ACTS.—
(a) Similar fact evidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is admissible when relevant to prove a material fact in issue, including, but not limited to, proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake or accident, but it is inadmissible when the evidence is relevant solely to prove bad character or propensity.

What are you talking about?? We loves us some hearsay, here! The more hearsier, the better.

Yes.

Which of those other reasons are you pushing today?

The New York Times said that. The police report said 190. I’m about Zimmerman height and when my fat goes through periods of remission I would look like him at about 210-220. If you look at his jeans the thighs are pretty tight. You end up with a lot of excess muscle in the legs and it causes people to underestimate your weight when they look at your upper body.

Is there some need that I push one? Cause I didn’t get the e-mail or the memo. So my bad.

Thanks

In one of his interviews, a reporter tracked down something he said Martin said to an a recent episode of ‘Justified’. Since the episode was on several weeks after the shooting, it seemed pretty unlikely that that Martin said it or his son would report that Martin that.

BTW, I love “Justified”.

No, no. It is only our strong moral character keeps us in line and out of prison. :smiley:

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/04/03/457593/trayvonmartin-family-attorney-questions-robert-zimmerman/

I can’t help but notice that when you parse it out they only seem to claim that Zimmerman family is in the same building, but they seem to want to imply that Robert Zimmerman was in the same room.

What would it matter if they were in the same chair? Isn’t anyone being interviewed entitled to an attorney? Wouldn’t any competent attorney have all the double secret knowledge about probable cause that his father had?

Is his father an attorney?

:cool:

What I really want to know is when witll the I Law & Order Episode inspired by these events air. And yes I know it is of the air but they will likely bring it back for one more special episode…maybe.