Free Case Study On Trayvon Martin Obama Statement

The killing of Troyon Martin seems to have polarized America. On the one hand some people think that his killer, Robert Zimmerman, is guilty of a crime, and on the other hand there are those that think he is only guilty of poor judgment. The case has taken on racial overtones, due to Martin being black and Zimmerman labeled a “White Hispanic.” A large segment of the population believes the executive branch must intervene, and Zimmerman should be retried and found guilty of something.
Numerous petitions on whitehouse.gov call for bringing Zimmerman to “justice.” Essentially, the petitions betray an animosity for reasoned debate. The petitions ignore the fact that a jury has spoken on the matter and proclaimed the accused not guilty of 2nd degree murder, or manslaughter. It is in vogue for the federal government to intervene with a criminal civil rights charge when a state courts verdict goes against the zeitgeist. The tactic reeks of a violation of 5th amendment rights against double jeopardy. The use of jurisdictional difference is a contrived effort to chip away at ancient criminal procedure developed to protect the individual from the power of the state or the vengeance of the lynch mob.
Any intervention by President Obama, or Holder’s Justice Department would be wholly inapporiate. There is only one person alive who knows what actually happened that fateful night in February of 2012. That was the essential problem with the case – there was no evidence of a crime committed; nothing that could sustain a prosecution. It was the most ridiculous case since the OJ Simpson trial. The president interceding at the behest of a lynch mob seeking an eye for an eye would set a dangerous precedent. Nothing can be done to bring Trayvon Martin back from the dead. There is no evidence of what went on that night. A new trial from the federal government would not rectify this fatal flaw in the prosecution, it could only damn all of us with nasty precedents.