Good riddance.
The Trayvon Martin case was a virtual perfect storm of bad facts and bad decisions. Trayvon Martin was a violence prone teenager who beat a man he didn't know nearly to death before he was shot and killed. George Zimmerman has proven himself worthy of a life sentence if felonious douchebaggery were in the penal code. Anti-gun zealots blamed Florida's 'stand your ground' law even though under any legal regime in the nation Zimmerman would have been justified in shooting Martin-- stand your ground hardly applies when someone is sitting on your chest. NBC doctored a 911 call to create a racist motive on the part of Zimmerman, who suddenly became a "white Hispanic." Barack Obama, our race-baiter-in-chief, jumped in the middle of a developing criminal case and declared Martin looked like the son he never had enough ambition to sire. The race-industrial industry set up shop in the community. An utterly gutless Rick Scott waived common sense to appease the carefully generated anger. And
Angela Corey was appointed the prosecutor for the case.
She took on the role as a pudgy avenging harpy rather than that of an independent prosecutor of a murder trial. She dismissed an empaneled grand jury and charged Zimmerman with second degree murder... mind you that even in the earliest moments of the case we knew Martin had been sitting on Zimmeran beating him in the face when the fatal shot was fired. As I wrote at the time:
She has threatened to sue Harvard if it did not fire Alan freakin Dershowitz after he pointed out her lack of legal acumen and ethics. In Florida she is something of a legend for threatening her critics.
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Last night, Florida voters showed they had tolerated this vicious bitter crone for a long as they could stomach her and they sent her packing.
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