George Zimmerman not expected to face civil rights charges in Trayvon Martin death

[amandabeech]

75. IIRC, in Florida and many states, the crime of stalking requires quite a bit more than

following someone around a condo complex for one time. The conversational meaning of the word "stalking" is different from the legal meaning of the same word, generally.

Personally, I didn't think that the prosecutors did such a hot job. They did a lousy job of preparing Ms. Gentile and the medical examiner. They put a lot of emphasis on the "scream" testimony in which each family member identified the scream as coming from his or her loved on. It seemed as though they did not realize how weak their case was until a day or two before closing arguments when the 2d chair was down on the carpet with a dummy trying to show that by the angle of the shot, it could not have come from a prone position. But it was too late.

Then for closing arguments, the 1st chair ran around in front of the bar just shouting. When it was his turn, the 2d chair pleaded to the jury to "go with its gut." No decent attorney would use those techniques in closing if he or she had a real argument on the law or the facts or both.