a house, and was shot in the head and killed. her aunt bernita spinks asked this question. you see a young black lady on your porch and you shoot? and we should make the point that stand your ground laws apply in that state. they absolutely do. in fact, because this maybe took pla place, the house is your castle doctrine may apply. it s important we understand that there are women also who are victims of these same kinds of crimes. it s important to acknowledge publicly the work that attorney parks and attorney crump have been doing around these issues is very powerful and very, very important. i hope they continue to do it. i think at the end of the day there s too much subjectivity in the stand your ground law and in those policies. what that means is our system, our entire criminal justice system, is contaminated by
ground was not used in this case. i heard stand your ground for over a year. it wasn t until the defense had had to file a motion that i stopped hearing stand your ground, which was a year later. which was april of 2013. from february 26, 2012, i had been hearing about stand your ground from the police department, from the attorneys, from the news. everybody said stand your ground. and it wasn t something that we made up. it was something that they were going to use. so it certainly played a part. in addition to that, also the jury was given instructions that had information on there about stand your ground. so it s not that we re making you know, making anything up. it s just that it was being used. stand your ground, attorney parks, was why they didn t they let zimmerman go at the precinct and not charge him. part of it was stand your ground. for certain. and rev, i think you have to
feeling that he was innocent. that s the part that i m having trouble grasping, because that showed me that there was there was thought in their mind that he was guilty and how you go from second-degree to not guilty at all, that troubles me, it baffles me. i have no idea how they dot gott to that. is there something the prosecutors could have done, attorney crump, that could have helped keep this going, at least the people that were already on the jury that one saying he did murder. did the prosecution fail? i know attorney parks and i talked about this a lot and attorney jackson and my legal chain. as sybrina said, we thank them for bringing the charges. many of the prosecutors in the state of florida would not have brought the charges no matter
that. if s there something prosecutor could have done, attorney crump, that could have helped keep this going in at least the people that were already on the jury? one is saying murder 2. did the prosecution fail? i know attorney parks and i talked about this a lot and attorney jackson, my legal team. as sybrina said, we thank ms. corey for bringing the charges, because many of the prosecutors in the state of florida would not have brought the charges no matter how much evidence they had. and certainly lawyers have different strategies and different styles. one of the strategies attorney parks and i employ always is to empower the jury to say your vote today in this courtroom is more important than your vote when you go vote in a presidential election. you go back there and you hold on to your vote. you don t let people sway you from your vote. your vote will count more today than it will in any presidential election.
with racial profiling. they charged him with criminally profiling trayvon martin, not even getting into the divisive issue of race. so when the defense does these things about saying black males had burglarized their community, it s almost as attorney parks is saying, it s a subtle suggestion that it s racial. and we try to continuously say that he profiled him for something. we don t know why, but for some reason trayvon was an f-ing hunk and an a-hole and he didn t know this kid from adam. at all. he assumed incorrectly. and trayvon martin had to pay with his hive for his incorrect assumption. one other point that came out is at various times we ve seen them try and portray trayvon as some young, black thug, right. and so there was a picture that was admitted into evidence that