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This is from a Justice department report. Sounds like they had a hand it to me.Zimmerman is just a modern opportunists a$$hole, that wrongfully shot a kid. Comments by Obama and oversite by justice inflamed rather resolved the situation and piling on less provable charges made it harder to get a clean conviction. Zim is a screw up, who became a posterboy for the right and has been riding that pony ever since. He's another sueing scum just looking for payday, because lawyers can be hired for a percentage of the take.
Agree with everything ya said except - While I think Obama’s comments weren’t helpful, don’t think they had a thing to do with the verdict. The AG completely F’d up the prosecution by overcharging (think u agree) and the prosecuting attorneys were Goober-level incompetent. I watched most of this trial & spent a lot of time facepalming.
Obama's Justice Department had nothing to with this case, Where did you get that silly idea? They had no jurisdiction.
Following the shooting, a team of some of the department’s most experienced civil rights prosecutors and FBI agents conducted a comprehensive, independent investigation of the events of Feb. 26, 2012. The federal investigation was opened and conducted separately from the state of Florida’s investigation of the shooting under local laws. Once the state initiated the second-degree murder prosecution, federal investigators began monitoring the state’s case and halted active investigation in order not to interfere with the state’s trial. Federal investigators provided reports of interviews and other evidence they obtained to the state’s prosecution team.