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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
As I believe heavily in the concept of innocent until proven guilty
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For the record, I practice criminal defence law. Suffice to say, so do I.
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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
, I don't see why I need to chose which side I feel sympathy for either. Why can't it be both? Zimmerman has to live with killing a 17 year old and half the nation hating him (some going so far as to put a bounty on his head) thinking he's a racist murderer where from all accounts he's not racist. While the Martin family has to deal with the death of their child.
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Fair point. It was silly of me to frame it as a choice between two mutually exclusive options. I suppose what I meant to say was: I'm surprised by the total absence of sympathy for Martin and his family from some posters.