Inventing imaginary thoughts for others is a hobby for some posters here
What I find "disgusting" is the conduct of that lawyer Don West. He comes off as an extremely arrogant condescending guy. You won the case, no need to continue to try to rehabilitate the image of your client within minutes of doing so. We get it, he's a saint and nothing but a victim. Even if you don't believe it, that's your "job" I suppose. Your daughter's little ice cream picture with the hash tag we beat stupid (when her father cross examined Rachel Jeantel) was disgusting too. I could say she was acting like a privileged ignorant white girl, but that would be racist and disgusting I suppose. You were in the picture, whether or not she asked your permission to post it on the internet..well it reflected quite poorly on you. Your little knock knock joke shortly after the opening of the prosecution, with the description of Trayvon's death, well I found that disgusting too.
I wouldn't take those t shirts as representative of the entire black community, nor would I ever condone them. Can I try to understand the anger of many African American people even though I've never lived a day in their shoes? Yes, I can try. Don't think I'll be all that successful.
The legal system is not a search for the truth, that's a fairytale. It's about what can be proven in court, who has the most money and the best lawyers, and a bunch of other things that have nothing to do with the truth. All that doesn't make that jury's verdict, or any jury's verdict, wrong. It's the system we have, I'd still rather have a non professional jury then the way it works in so many other countries. But the many inequalities that exist in the system, as a general commentary not directly related to this case, can't be denied.
I just had a hard a hard time sleeping last night, the whole thing just bothers me very much. Wouldn't want to be on that jury, I know that for sure.
George gets his gun back, he fears for his life. I fear for what this verdict might do to certain people who might be motivated to think they can get away with murder, manslaughter, whatever you want to call it.
The other comment that was laughable to me was O'Mara's comment that it was David vs Goliath. You apparently had unlimited funds-you hired a guy to do an animated recreation with technology used in Avatar and Iron Man, among other movies. You paid the guy who wrote the book on forensic pathology $400/hour. The list could probably go on and on. Yes the state has plenty of resources and power, but you're hardly the public defenders that you also managed to insult. At least he apologized for that.
I do think the prosecution could have had witnesses who were better prepared, don't think they were well prepared and suddenly did a 180 on the stand. It made them appear incompetent, the witnesses and sometimes the prosecutors. Don't put witnesses on in your first week who obviously are helping the defense way more than they're helping you. That's not the reason for the verdict, but there were apparent flaws. The mistakes of the testing and the ME office didn't help them either, the defense took full advantage of them. That's what they're supposed to do.
I wonder how George's wacky neighbor and friend Frank Taffee (have seen him act wacky several times on tv, would guess that's why he didn't testify) had some sort of information that the jury was 5-1 for acquittal when they asked the manslaughter question. He claimed so on tv last night. Either he was pulling that out of his you know what, or something improper was going on somewhere. When they asked the general question about manslaughter and never asked a more specific one, I thought it had to be an acquittal.