I'm thoroughly peeved by the whole Martin/Zimmerman hullabaloo, and you know why?
We do not have the facts. No matter what you read in the paper, the way the law works, the FACTS are what is presented in court. It's not what you read on Huff-Po or heard on Fox. It's not what you read in the New York Times. All of those media outlets have a slant no matter how they try to make it look like they don't have one.
The facts are what is presented in court, and the facts are what the jurors take and use to make their decision. I wasn't there and I didn't listen to testimony. I didn't hear what was presented to them. So I have no idea what they heard that made them come to the decision they did.
But they did their jobs. They were handed a case, they followed the rules of the court (at least I assume they did. If they didn't, then the court should have reprimanded them and handled it). And they came in with a Not Guilty verdict.
It doesn't matter what you think -- the jurors did what they were charged with doing. Was it a travesty of justice? Maybe, but our courts don't care about justice. They care about the law.
Okay. Enough soapbox for now. I'm just getting tired of all the pontificating about injustice. This wasn't injustice. This was the American legal system at work.
Live with it.
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