As you probably know by now, I have been very much interested in victims/survivors' rights since around February 1976 when my then English high school teacher's daughter, Michelle, was murdered on 2-24 in Reno, NV. This was while I was in high school. The police questioned any student in my English teacher's class who knew Michelle and a few months later had a policeman visit the class to talk about how we could get over this murder. He basically just gave us a tough love lecture by going over the history of murders in Northern Nevada.

Anyway, very publicized murders like Michelle's as well as Trayvon Martin's can test the criminal justice system. Michelle's was solved in 1979 through a jailhouse snitch who heard the murderer bragging about killing Michelle while in a prison in Louisiana.

Just who was the victim in the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman matter though?

It seems to depend on one's views about self-defense, racism, and a number of other factors.

Both Mitt Romney and President Obama seem to have stayed above the fray of the Zimmerman/Martin matter and jus said what for the authorities to do their jobs.

From recent events, do you think that President Obama or Mitt Romney would be a better advocate for victims/survivors in various Federal cases?? Republicans have often been very strong on the issue of victims' rights; while often Democrats factor in the rights of the accused to a greater extent.