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Originally posted by nixie_nox
reply to post by Chalupas
You can claim that your goofy website is a legitimate source all you want, but it doesn't make it so.
And you have yet to provide a legitimate one which means you don't have one.
Eyewitness accounts are tools, not evidence.
And here is the exact reason why:
In 1984 Kirk Bloodsworth was convicted of the rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl and sentenced to the gas chamber—an outcome that rested largely on the testimony of five eyewitnesses. After Bloodsworth served nine years in prison, DNA testing proved him to be innocent.
scientificamerican
Originally posted by Kali74
Still waiting for an explanation on how those tweets lead to an assumption of Trayvon being a gang banger.
About 200 people convicted of violent crimes have been exonerated by DNA evidence in the past two decades. About 80 percent have been the victims of eyewitness misidentification
While there are many mistakes, omissions and sloppy practices that can contribute to wrongful convictions, one of the most serious and widespread problems is mistaken or flawed eyewitness identification. Of the 43 DNA exonerations in Texas, the most of any state, more than 80 percent were due to mistaken eyewitness identification, as were all nine of the Houston Police Department's DNA exonerations.
Columnist Ronnie Polaneczky writes about three men in the Philadelphia area who were arrested on the basis of mistaken identifications.
Originally posted by nixie_nox
reply to post by Chalupas
About 200 people convicted of violent crimes have been exonerated by DNA evidence in the past two decades. About 80 percent have been the victims of eyewitness misidentification
yale law
While there are many mistakes, omissions and sloppy practices that can contribute to wrongful convictions, one of the most serious and widespread problems is mistaken or flawed eyewitness identification. Of the 43 DNA exonerations in Texas, the most of any state, more than 80 percent were due to mistaken eyewitness identification, as were all nine of the Houston Police Department's DNA exonerations.
chron.com
Columnist Ronnie Polaneczky writes about three men in the Philadelphia area who were arrested on the basis of mistaken identifications.
link
I could post more but you get the point.
Also, do you personally know the physcal prowess of both men? Are you stereotyping again and speculating that an older man is weak and a football player must be strong and can over power him?
I hope you never get pulled for jury duty.
edit on 23-3-2012 by nixie_nox because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Kali74
reply to post by Chalupas
Blood as in brother or family or close friend. The Bloods if they still exist even are in LA. Fail.
Originally posted by Chalupas
Originally posted by nixie_nox
reply to post by Chalupas
About 200 people convicted of violent crimes have been exonerated by DNA evidence in the past two decades. About 80 percent have been the victims of eyewitness misidentification
yale law
While there are many mistakes, omissions and sloppy practices that can contribute to wrongful convictions, one of the most serious and widespread problems is mistaken or flawed eyewitness identification. Of the 43 DNA exonerations in Texas, the most of any state, more than 80 percent were due to mistaken eyewitness identification, as were all nine of the Houston Police Department's DNA exonerations.
chron.com
Columnist Ronnie Polaneczky writes about three men in the Philadelphia area who were arrested on the basis of mistaken identifications.
link
I could post more but you get the point.
Also, do you personally know the physcal prowess of both men? Are you stereotyping again and speculating that an older man is weak and a football player must be strong and can over power him?
I hope you never get pulled for jury duty.
edit on 23-3-2012 by nixie_nox because: (no reason given)
The physicall prowess of both men is in the police report. You can not assume that the evidence is false no matter how much you disagree with it.
Quit putting words into my mouth.
And, I said he was a football star because he has the ability to outrun and is physically stronger than Zimmerman --- something the media is not telling people.
Originally posted by Annee
Good for Obama.
Sometimes there's just a need to be human.
Originally posted by Chalupas
Yes, the death of anyone is a tragedy. But there are WHOLE riots and protest being insticated by "racial war fighters" who are ignoring the facts.
field-negro.blogspot.com...
Another day has passed and George Zimmerman is still free. *shaking head* Anyway, a grand jury will convene in early April and unless the people of Florida are as dumb as their local law enforcement officials, criminal charges are sure to follow. I also have to commend the Department of Justice for getting involved. It's amazing what a little pressure can do. All you people who helped to blow up this story should be proud of yourselves. Nancy Grace isn't going to pick up our stories, so we have to make it a story and hope that the main stream media will chase it.
Sadly, I continue to learn more about what happened on that night in Central Florida, and the more I learn www.clickorlando.com... the angrier I get. It's getting harder and harder for the enemies of justice to justify the actions of the racist vigilante masquerading as a protector of law abiding citizens. Florida's seven year old self- defense ("stand your ground") law was made for the victim in this case, not for the shooter. But the shooter hid behind the law and avoided being charged by inept local law enforcement officials.
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“They always get away,” Zimmerman told dispatch in a 911 call released Friday, and he kept tracking Martin. Zimmerman had a gun. Martin was carrying only an ice tea and the Skittles he’d just bought at the store. The two had a struggle that no one saw. Hearing shots, neighbors called 911. In one call that’s hard to listen to, a woman anxiously says she can hear someone calling for help while in the background, a terrified, wailing voice pleads, "No! No!"
I heard that "wailing voice". And it didn't belong to George Zimmerman.
field-negro.blogspot.com...
"SANFORD -- SANFORD The 911 tapes released by police Friday show neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman called in with a problem: there had been a few break-ins lately, and now there was another suspicious guy in his Retreats at Twin Lakes neighborhood.
He looked like he might be on drugs and “up to no good.”
“It’s raining. He’s just walking around, looking about,” Zimmerman told the dispatcher. “He’s just staring looking at all the houses.”
Later, he lamented: “These a**holes always get away.”
Zimmerman is the neighborhood watch volunteer in the Central Florida town of Sanford who on Feb. 26 shot and killed Miami Gardens teenager Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman claimed the teen started an altercation, and then -- in fear for his life -- Zimmerman pulled a weapon from his waistband and fired. He has not been charged.
Family members and attorneys believe the Sanford Police has bent over backward to protect Zimmerman out of a sense of kinship for a man who had devoted his spare time to law enforcement.
In an interview this week with the Miami Herald, Police Chief Bill Lee said the 911 calls would prove the incident was not a case of racial profiling, because when asked whether the suspect was white or black, Zimmerman did not know. However the recording clearly shows that when asked, Zimmerman said, “He looks black.” And then a few moments later, “He’s a black male.”
His family filed a lawsuit to force the Sanford Police Department to release the 911 tapes to clarify the murky circumstances. A hearing had been scheduled for Monday, and in the face of mounting national pressure the Sanford Police decided to release the tapes late Friday. They first allowed the slain teen’s family and attorneys to listen.
According to the recordings posted on the city’s website, Zimmerman was perturbed because Trayvon looked a bit out of sorts. Other callers reported hearing someone calling for help and then a blast that silenced the wailing. One call, so close that the cries for help could be heard, contains two sounds, first a muted bang that family attorneys believe was a warning shot, then the louder crack of close-range gunfire. Sanford police said Sunday that a check of the weapon showed only one shot was fired.
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The thing is, the media in A-merry-ca will jump all over a story where there is perceived injustice somewhere else in the world, but not so much here in A-merry-ca. They are especially afraid of stories that involve the uncomfortable subject of race. God forbid we mess up the beautiful kumbaya post-racial vibe that we have been enjoying of late. *sarcasm off*
At the end of the day it's bloggers and the social media that always drives these stories,because the producers who work in the main stream media and their puppet masters do not have the guts to do it. It's only after the public outcry becomes loud enough to embarrass them that they give in and feature these types of stories in their programming.
Originally posted by Chalupas
Originally posted by Annee
Good for Obama.
Sometimes there's just a need to be human.
The POTUS shouldn't give his judgements on a local level case, no matter how much attention it has gotten. That isnt the POTUS' job. He knows his words carry a lot of weight -- he knew what he was doing when he said that.