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Originally Posted by buggyone
In order to ask which candidate would be a better advocate for the victim, you first have to determine who is the victim. Is the victim the dead person or the person who shot him? Was the killing justified and does that make the killer the victim - or is the victim still the dead person? I say "killer" merely because you have the "killer" and the "killed".
As my friend, Rubicon, says - I opine, you decide.
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In most cases, it seems very easy to determine just who the victim was in some crime. I have never got the impression that there are many innocent people in jail. There are some but it is probably less than 2% or so of those incarcerated. Those statistics though are very unreliable--
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/25/us/25bar.html?_r=1 Innocence Blog: How Many Innocent People are in Prison?
Some poorly written laws on victims' rights also may leave out vast groups of people because of how the law was written or because of some kind of political pressures put on the lawmakers.
The Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman case is a tragedy for both families involved no matter what happens in the future. A young man is dead and what looks like a good man's reputation is ruined. I do hope that the facts in the Zimmerman case come out though. Seems like both sides are rightfully sitting on the evidence because of just how emotional both sides have become in this.
Trayvon Martin | Judge wants info about Zimmerman's Pay Pal accounts - OrlandoSentinel.com George Zimmerman: Zimmerman evidence to be released soon. What will it show? - Orlando Sentinel George Zimmerman Trayvon Martin discovery - Orlando Sentinel