Maybe him and her should hook up . Bad people deserve each other ..

I think the problem was is that they went for murder and not something like negligent man slaughter or equivalent.

^He shoulda walked away and let the police do their job dude, he was literally stalking this kid cuz of a robbery that happened in his neighborhood and he decided to get in this kid's face and confront him based on his look. The kid was minding his own business, but he was black and had a hoodie up and walked with a swagger so Zimmerman profiled him, got in his face, and got punched for being a dumbass. The 911 operator said "We don't need you to do that." when he was following this kid he profiled. He did it anyway like some kinda wannabe racist cowboy vigilante and when he was getting his ass kicked by a little kid he shot him in the heart. He shoulda never have even been there but he made up his mind about that kid. The justice system is so fucked up down there that the defense had no problem calling it self defense. But what about Trevon Martin's right to defend himself when he's just walking home?

Edit: I briefly heard on the news this morning from one of the Jurors that said "This kid could have been white or hispanic or any other color and Zimmerman would have confronted him" And the she started crying about how he wasn't a racist. YEAH, RIGHT! I'm dumbfounded that she would even say something so utterly moronic. What kind of DUMBASS brainwashed jurors does Florida fucking hire that would think that way? She was the worst kind of juror ever, easily brainwashable with no logical thought processes going in her skull.

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...yet - Mike Vick can get two years for shooting/hanging a dog.....Plaxico Burress gets a year for shooting himself in the leg. Different statesthan FL...yeah, i know...but a show of the two-tiered legal system in the US....

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The justice system is so fucked up down there.......

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Marissa Alexander case in spotlight after Zimmerman trial
By Billy Kenber, Published: July 15

Two Florida towns, 125 miles apart. Two people firing weapons at unarmed aggressors, purportedly in self-defense.

George Zimmerman, the 29-year-old neighborhood-watch commander, fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin but was acquitted by a jury that apparently concluded he was in fear for his life.

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Marissa Alexander, a 32-year-old mother of three, fired what she described as a warning shot in the direction of her husband — against whom she had a protective order — and two stepsons. No one was injured, but she was convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to 20 years.

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In the wake of the Zimmerman trial and the national debate on race and justice that it prompted, Alexander’s case — from 2010 — has drawn renewed attention, including an online petition seeking a pardon from Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) that has generated more than 36,000 signatures.

Supporters say Alexander, who is African American, was a victim of ingrained racism in Florida’s courts. Some say that those same alleged prejudices allowed Zimmerman, who has a white father and a Peruvian mother, to walk free after killing Martin, who was black.

But Angela Corey, the state attorney who prosecuted Alexander and oversaw the Zimmerman case, says there were “zero parallels.” The facts surrounding Alexander’s conviction, she adds, are more complex than the Twitter-fueled pardon campaign makes it appear.

“I think social media is going to be the destruction of this country,” Corey said. “How dare people just repeat something without checking it’s true.”

Alexander was convicted of three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for firing a gun into a wall close to where her husband, Rico Gray, and stepsons were standing, after she and Gray had a dispute.

When questioned by police, Alexander said she discharged the weapon to avoid being beaten by Gray, who was subject to an injunction prohibiting violent contact with her. Alexander, who had given birth to Gray’s child nine days earlier, said she had no intention of killing him.

A judge rejected her bid to mount a defense under Florida’s controversial “stand your ground” law, which allows people to use deadly force if they or their homes are in danger. After she rejected a three-year plea deal, Alexander was convicted and sentenced to 20 years, as required by Florida’s strict sentencing guidelines on crimes involving a gun.

Kevin Cobbin, Alexander’s attorney, said his client was justified in firing her gun because Gray “had put his hands on her and there was a fight in the bathroom.”

“The judge decided not to make the call to grant ‘stand your ground,’ ” Cobbin said. “If it had been a white female, I believe she would have.”

Rep. Corrine Brown (D-Fla.), whose district includes parts of Jacksonville, last year described Alexander’s case as evidence of “institutional racism.”

But Corey said there are other, less widely shared details that paint a different picture.

She said Gray’s sons were pulling on their shoes to leave the house when Alexander raised her weapon to fire — in other words, they and their father were about to leave.

While online accounts sympathetic to Alexander say she fired shots into the ceiling, the single bullet she fired actually hit the wall, not far from Gray and the boys, then ricocheted into the ceiling, Corey said.

Corey also points out a later incident when Alexander, while free on bail and awaiting trial, became involved in an altercation with Gray that left him with a swollen eye.

“She put a round in the chamber, and she fired that shot out of anger, not fear,” Corey said. “She didn’t need to use that gun. Those kids were scared to death. They ran for their lives.”