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Old 07-19-2013, 11:42 AM   #1203
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Originally Posted by valo403 View Post
Actually a perpetrator is someone responsible for something. Zimmerman is responsible for shooting and killing Martin, regardless of the legal outcome.
No. The perpetrator is the person who has actually committed the crime. The courts decided that no crime actually occurred here. Perpetrator is a word that is used within a legal context similar to accussed, suspect, etc...

In order for their to be a perpetrator, there needs to be a crime.
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