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<blockquote data-quote="oldngray" data-source="post: 1174629" data-attributes="member: 45230"><p>All of the physical evidence supported Zimmerman&#039;s story and nothing contradicted it, so the jury had to decide not guilty even though emotionally they may not have liked it. There was no case to prosecute and it was only done for political reasons. The prosecution tried to rely on the sympathy of the jury towards Martin instead of proving their own case. All the prosecution could do during the whole trial was suggest other possibilities of things that &quot;could have&quot; or &quot;might have&quot; happened instead of proving that Zimmerman was guilty. With the burden of proof on the prosecution any doubt is always in favor of the defendant. And it was a simple self defense case, not stand your ground. All the stand your ground law changed was remove your requirement to retreat if in any way possible, and since Zimmerman was on his back pinned down by Martin (as the evidence supported) Zimmerman couldn&#039;t have retreated anyway</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="oldngray, post: 1174629, member: 45230"] All of the physical evidence supported Zimmerman's story and nothing contradicted it, so the jury had to decide not guilty even though emotionally they may not have liked it. There was no case to prosecute and it was only done for political reasons. The prosecution tried to rely on the sympathy of the jury towards Martin instead of proving their own case. All the prosecution could do during the whole trial was suggest other possibilities of things that "could have" or "might have" happened instead of proving that Zimmerman was guilty. With the burden of proof on the prosecution any doubt is always in favor of the defendant. And it was a simple self defense case, not stand your ground. All the stand your ground law changed was remove your requirement to retreat if in any way possible, and since Zimmerman was on his back pinned down by Martin (as the evidence supported) Zimmerman couldn't have retreated anyway [/QUOTE]

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