O'Mara now saying Trayvon was armed with the sidewalk.

[madaboutharry]

Wow.

[madashelltoo]

1. That damned sidewalk!

[polichick]

2. That DEADLY sidewalk!

[bigdarryl]

3. I'm not watching this FOOL!!! but I know your joking right?

[madaboutharry]

4. No I am not.

He just said "That was not an unarmed teenager!"

Then he said that if Trayvon had survived he would have been charged with aggravated battery.

[TDale313]

5. Seriously, is this bs at all effective?

He just, to me, comes across as a smug & condescending. Maybe I'm wrong, but them not acknowledging the gravity and tragedy that a 17 year old ended up dead seems tone deaf. You can do that and still claim Zimmerman was acting in self defense. But the tone is just wildly off putting to me.

[Sheepshank]

6. You know that this is Obama's fault right?

Public sidewalk, built with public funds and maintainted/repaired with public funds. Funds from the Public Works Department which is always bolstered by property taxes (permissing to collect taxes given by the Feds) and Public Works budgets always bolstered by grants and subsidies given by the Feds. Doesn't matter that the sidewalk was created during the Bush administration, it's alive and well and fuinctioning as a social contract under Obama. Did O'mara clarify that that?

[Bake]

15. Damn socialists!

Bake

[Blackford]

17. Actually, looking at the map, that sidewalk was most likely privately owned

and maintained by HOA assessments. IF you look at it the sidewalk is not a part of any public easement but is on HOA property between HOA buildings:

[Sheepshank]

32. Here...80% of HOAs are still utilizing public streets and not private roads.

BUT...if these are private roads...there is still going to be a way to bring it back to Obama...he permiited the continued privitization of roads ...see how that workls?

[Iggo]

7. That's 'cause he can't say he was armed with his black skin.

[MrScorpio]

8. An UNREGISTERED sidewalk, mind you

Trayvon was a poster child for the National Sidewalk Association

[Fawke Em]

28. So THAT'S the NSA that Snowden said was spying on us.

Gotcha.

[reflection]

9. Of course, any other time a non-gun is present in a death

we have to hear hordes of right wing morons say "we shouldn't rest until we have outlawed (automobiles/tall buildings/swimming pools), herp derp huhhhuhhhhuhhh." I wonder if they'll include sidewalks now. I think not.

[bravenak]

10. I'm mad at that.

Wish he'd shut up.

[Boomerproud]

11. If the prosecution doesn't nail his ugly face for that

than I have to wonder whether they ever wanted to prosecute this case at all...

[MiniMe]

12. That sidewalk had to be heavy. How could he carry his iced tea and skittles?

Heavy sarcasm there.

[quinnox]

13. these Zimmerman defense attorneys are the biggest clowns ever

[Kber]

14. Of course, the problem with that assertion

is that we all use sidewalks and if using a sidewalk made Travon a legitimate target, then we are all targets, aren't we?

[Bake]

16. When sidewalks are outlawed, only outlaws will have sidewalks!

Bake

[HappyMe]

20. lol!

"Gimme your wallet, or I'll wallop you with this sidewalk!"

[Rex]

18. Really? So he pulled out the sidewalk and shot Zim in the heart with concrete?

These gun humpers are so desperate for anything to stick. I cannot wait for their client to get 2nd degree murder.

[The Magistrate]

24. If Sidewalks Are Such A Threat To Men With Guns, Sir

Perhaps they should ditch the pistols and avail themselves of a sidewalk, to ensure their perfect safety....

[Rex]

27. Your words ring true, I will never look at sidewalks quite the same again.

I never knew I had such a deadly force multiplier underneath my feet, I wonder what size the ammo comes in?

[The Magistrate]

29. One Shot, One Kill, Sir

Readily available on any street....

[onenote]

19. It is a silly sounding argument but actually one that has divided courts

Where someone is alleged to have engaged in an assault with a deadly weapon and the injury involved hitting someone's head against the floor or sidewalk, the courts have divided, often based on the specific language of the statute in question, on whether the floor or sidewalk can constitute a deadly weapon.

http://caselaw.findlaw.com/wa-supreme-court/1550755.html


To put it another context, UVa lacrosse player George Huguely killed his girlfriend Yeardley Love by slamming her head against a wall. If after the first time he slammed her against the wall she had broken free, grabbed a gun and shot him, would she be justified in claiming self defense?

My point isn't that Zimmerman should get off based on self-defense (I don't think on the facts of this case he should); its merely that its not really a stupid argument, its an argument that is being made in stupid terms.

Sorry to be a killjoy. Return to having fun with this.

[Cali_Democrat]

21. Did he need a permit for that deadly sidewalk?

[Spirochete]

22. Sounds like concrete evidence to me n/t

[olddots]

25. best post ever

I mean it that's brilliant

[ecstatic]

23. That pathetic line was in their opening as well

Shortly after the lame knock knock "joke."

[olddots]

26. at this point I want the defense team

to be tried for first degree cluelessness .

[pkdu]

30. How is this the result of 25 to 30 slammings against concrete?

Only 2 small cuts , One or maybe even both are too high on the head

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[mainstreetonce]

31. Sidewalks don't bash people

People bash people with sidewalks.


Some sidewalks apparently only leave tiny boo boos.

[sarisataka]

33. New one for the list

http://www.laughitout.com/2008/10/amazingly-stupid-lawyer-quotes.html