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Originally posted by Jefferton
Enough. It's over. Let it go.
Originally posted by Rocker2013
reply to post by Libertygal
Every company has an "official line". Would it have helped the case then to be criticizing the jury selection? Probably not. It's not shocking to me to see them saying that back then and now saying that it's not acceptable.
Especially now that it's been revealed that one of the jurors, a 37 year old wife of a lawyer, is writing a book about the trial. That alone should cast serious doubts on the verdict and her interests as a jury member.
Within 24 hours she was releasing a statement about her upcoming book. That means that she must have had an agent or a publisher lined up WHILE the trial was completing. You don't just call up a publisher and get a book deal the following day. She had to have been working on this while on the jury, at least securing herself a book deal.
That is the real story going on right now, not whether someone said something back then that they changed their mind about.
The federal mediator works for the U.S. Department of Justice Community Relations Service (CRS), a stealth federal operation that works to defuse community anger hardening along the fault lines of race, color and national origin.
The mediators are called the peacemakers.
The CRS was established by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to act as a “peacemaker” in communities with tension from race, color and national origin-related conflicts. It is the only federal agency dedicated to working with state, local officials as well as community groups in, “restoring racial stability and harmony.” Four years ago, the agency’s mission was broadened to include hate crimes related to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion and disability.
“If you see Thomas, you know there is a problem,’’ said Benjamin Crump, the Martin family attorney who worked with Battles on a case in Panama City several years ago. “
Blacks, who had long felt mistreated by the Sanford Police Department, saw in Trayvon another case of mistreatment by law enforcement, and his death quickly became to symbolize racial injustice.
Trayvon Martin's family's attorneys, Benjamin Crump and Daryl Parks appear to have connections to an Astroturf activist group that led protests, marches and other civil disobedience that forced the removal of Sanford, Florida's police chief, the arrest of George Zimmerman and even led chants calling for nationwide protests after the "not guilty" verdict was announced in criminal case.
His team also negotiated police protection for the Dream Defenders, a group of students who walked 40 miles from Daytona to Sanford in a “justice for Trayvon” protest.
are people so desperate that they are looking for any reason to invalidate the judgement no matter how petty?
Originally posted by Jefferton
Enough. It's over. Let it go.
Originally posted by namehere
i'd think people could see through such a distraction, i mean whats wrong with a juror writing a book about her experience? whether he's been judged guilty or not has nothing to do with any book, are people so desperate that they are looking for any reason to invalidate the judgement no matter how petty?edit on 16-7-2013 by namehere because: (no reason given)