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The defense proved nothing other than there was not enough eyewitnesses to anything to point out the very large problems in his story.

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ORIGINAL: Raiikun

Except George never stalked anyone, per Florida law, and the evidence is such that if Trayvon hadn't attacked George unprovoked, or had ceased when George was screaming for help, he'd still be alive today.

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

I am not here to refute anything, I see no evidence nor fact in the media or from you, that changes my mind regarding what happened. Nor do I see a fact or evidence that would change my mind if Trayvon had killed that lying motherfucker. He would be in school now, and walking to his fathers girlfriends house, unmolested.

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ORIGINAL: Kirata

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ORIGINAL: Marc2b

The fact remains that being black makes you more likely to be convicted of a crime.

Is the Criminal Justice System Racist?

In 1997, criminologists Robert Sampson and Janet Lauritsen reviewed the massive literature on charging and sentencing. They concluded that “large racial differences in criminal offending,” not racism, explained why more blacks were in prison proportionately than whites and for longer terms.

A 1987 analysis of Georgia felony convictions, for example, found that blacks frequently received disproportionately lenient punishment.

A 1990 study of 11,000 California cases found that slight racial disparities in sentence length resulted from blacks’ prior records and other legally relevant variables.

A 1994 Justice Department survey of felony cases from the country’s 75 largest urban areas discovered that blacks actually had a lower chance of prosecution following a felony than whites did and that they were less likely to be found guilty at trial. Following conviction, blacks were more likely to receive prison sentences, however—an outcome that reflected the gravity of their offenses as well as their criminal records.

Another criminologist—easily as liberal as Sampson—reached the same conclusion in 1995: “Racial differences in patterns of offending, not racial bias by police and other officials, are the principal reason that such greater proportions of blacks than whites are arrested, prosecuted, convicted and imprisoned,” Michael Tonry wrote in Malign Neglect...

The media’s favorite criminologist, Alfred Blumstein, found in 1993 that blacks were significantly underrepresented in prison for homicide compared with their presence in arrest.

But, of course...

This consensus hasn’t made the slightest dent in the ongoing search for systemic racism.

K.

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

I am not here to refute anything, I see no evidence nor fact in the media or from you, that changes my mind regarding what happened. Nor do I see a fact or evidence that would change my mind if Trayvon had killed that lying motherfucker. He would be in school now, and walking to his fathers girlfriends house, unmolested.