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cali

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38. I'm kinda gobsmacked that you don't know the most basic things here

Reply to HiPointDem (Reply #17)

Mon Jul 15, 2013, 04:45 AM

Jul 2013

no crime victim has their personal lawyer prosecute a case. The crime is against the state. The state decides if there is a crime and introduces the charges and prosecutes the case. This is true in all jurisdictions all of the time. If Bill Gates was murdered, the state would be the one deciding on and bringing charges, not the Gates' lawyers.

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Why weren't the Martins represented by their own lawyer? Is there some rule that the lawyer [View all] HiPointDem Jul 2013 OP

He represents the state LittleBlue Jul 2013 #1

i think in a civil case they can pick their own lawyer, but this was a state case JI7 Jul 2013 #2

It's the way things work in a criminal case NoPasaran Jul 2013 #3

how convenient. the lawyer sucked. so badly you'd think it was planned. HiPointDem Jul 2013 #4

How convenient? Jenoch Jul 2013 #7

go away HiPointDem Jul 2013 #8

I am on record on these threads Jenoch Jul 2013 #9

go the hell away HiPointDem Jul 2013 #16

Post removed Post removed Jul 2013 #34

your (sic) a joke too. HiPointDem Jul 2013 #40

That would explain Zimmerman & his family's smugness perhaps Matariki Jul 2013 #23

If the family brings a civil suit and loses onenote Jul 2013 #24

Right. Defend this travesty of justice. Matariki Jul 2013 #25

I'm not defending it onenote Jul 2013 #26

The state prosecutors didn't have much to work with, unfortunately. Avalux Jul 2013 #28

protecting the state of florida & sanford le hopemountain Jul 2013 #35

they did have their own lawyer TorchTheWitch Jul 2013 #5

"he's NOT an incompetent prosecutor." -- have you seen him in trials before? are you from HiPointDem Jul 2013 #6

no, I'm not from Florida TorchTheWitch Jul 2013 #10

Your feeling that he threw the case is based on his being a highly competent lawyer in other HiPointDem Jul 2013 #11

The two prosecutors have a lot of woolldog Jul 2013 #15

I never thought about that TorchTheWitch Jul 2013 #37

You really believe he threw the case? Why would he do that? GiaGiovanni Jul 2013 #13

politics TorchTheWitch Jul 2013 #18

So you think the NRA had undue influence? GiaGiovanni Jul 2013 #22

both TorchTheWitch Jul 2013 #27

It's like you're describing a completely rotted tree GiaGiovanni Jul 2013 #32

our entire government from local up through federal IS a completely rotted tree TorchTheWitch Jul 2013 #33

thank you for this post hopemountain Jul 2013 #36

Benjamin Crump is representing the family, but it was the state that filed charges GiaGiovanni Jul 2013 #12

The Martin family were not the victims in this case Nevernose Jul 2013 #14

they *were* victims. they would have been better off with their own lawyer than the half-assed HiPointDem Jul 2013 #17

It's a criminal case... Dr Hobbitstein Jul 2013 #19

the concept that individuals don't press criminal charges ProdigalJunkMail Jul 2013 #20

I'm kinda gobsmacked that you don't know the most basic things here cali Jul 2013 #38

i said they would have been better off with their own lawyer. whatever the law says, the crime HiPointDem Jul 2013 #39

Criminal cases are prosecuted by the government, MineralMan Jul 2013 #21

Because no one named Martin was on trial. 1-Old-Man Jul 2013 #29

This is not how the system works anywhere in the country and what would be the point? TheKentuckian Jul 2013 #30

ou don't know the difference between civil and criminal law? rustydog Jul 2013 #31