{"id":2583,"date":"2013-07-14T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T02:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=2583"},"modified":"2013-07-14T02:29:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-14T02:29:14","slug":"what-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=2583","title":{"rendered":"What now?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>George Zimmerman\u2019s acquittal of a murder charge in connection with the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, 17, leaves me virtually speechless.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/07\/13\/justice\/zimmerman-trial\/index.html?hpt=hp_t1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/07\/13\/justice\/zimmerman-trial\/index.html?hpt=hp_t1\">http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/07\/13\/justice\/zimmerman-trial\/index.html?hpt=hp_t1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>OK, I wasn\u2019t in the jury room. I didn\u2019t hear all the evidence. I even have acknowledged a bit of trial-coverage fatigue, which means I didn\u2019t watch every moment it was shown on cable news networks.<\/p>\n<p>But I had formed an opinion quite some time back on what I thought ought to happen, which is that Zimmerman would be found guilty of at least manslaughter. The six-woman jury saw it differently. I respect the jury\u2019s decision, even if I disagree with it.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s how the system works.<\/p>\n<p>Time will enable us to sort out how the jury came to its conclusion. It appears in the immediate aftermath that the defense team cast enough reasonable doubt on the facts of the case to make it impossible to convict Zimmerman \u201cbeyond a reasonable doubt.\u201d Sound familiar? It should. It smacks of the same reasoning that resulted in O.J. Simpson\u2019s acquittal of murder in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>OH, my.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m just hoping now for calm.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Zimmerman\u2019s acquittal of a murder charge in connection with the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, 17, leaves me virtually speechless. http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/07\/13\/justice\/zimmerman-trial\/index.html?hpt=hp_t1 OK, I wasn\u2019t in the jury room. I didn\u2019t hear all the evidence. I even have acknowledged a bit of trial-coverage fatigue, which means I didn\u2019t watch every moment it was shown on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=2583\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What now?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}