Stevie Wonder To Boycott 'Stand Your Ground' States

Very sad. I like Stevie Wonder a lot...but if this is how he feels, I guess I have to "boycott" him in return.
 
BuddyRey said:
Very sad. I like Stevie Wonder a lot...but if this is how he feels, I guess I have to "boycott" him in return.
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Stevie's handlers probably told him that an extremely angry George Zimmerman essentially poached a high school honor student, who was simply returning from the local convenience store with a sugary beverage and a pack of Skittles. It's not like Stevie can actively locate other sources of information on the account that he's blind as a bat.
 
yea yea yea

How many of those celebrities that were 'boycotting' Arizona before actually went thru with it?
 
His decision won't take any money out of my pocket. He probably has enough money that it won't bother him either.
 
Dr.3D said:
His decision won't take any money out of my pocket. He probably has enough money that it won't bother him either.
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So a blind man that travels around to different states singing for money is going to start boycotting certain states for political reasons? Hell, whatever. Add it to the list.
 
I am going to boycott Stevie Wonder. That isn't that hard to do since I never bought any thing he ever put out before.
 
jkob said:
yea yea yea

How many of those celebrities that were 'boycotting' Arizona before actually went thru with it?
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It's just a feeling of trying to "do something" for a gross miscarriage of justice. It won't actually have an impact obviously and the attempts are misguided.
 
Well , I would be impressed if he can name stand your ground states , list his sales there , say what it is he did not like about a juries decisision that was presented with no evidence and what it was he liked about a state bringing a trial with no evidence . I am good , I have Ray Charles on and he is dead and a beer.Next subject , or should we check with fucking Lady Gaga , lol, what a dumbass.
 
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BlackTerrel said:
It's just a feeling of trying to "do something" for a gross miscarriage of justice. It won't actually have an impact obviously and the attempts are misguided.
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I am always amazed at how willing people are to second guess a jury when they didn't see all the evidence, didn't see the witnesses testify first hand, didn't hear the jury instructions, and have no direct knowledge of the facts. ALL they know is what the news media has told them and that is perhaps the single LEAST reliable source of information in the modern world.

But more importantly, people lack an understanding of what a criminal trial is even about. A criminal trial is not about determining whether or not an individual committed a crime. It is about measuring the government's proof. A jury may think the defendant committed a crime and still properly acquit if the government fell short of proof. This is what happened in the OJ Simpson trial. Everyone thought they knew the evidence and could concluded that "OJ did it". Of course they DIDN'T know the evidence because they were not in the courtroom, but more importantly they didn't understand the burden of proof. There were jurors in the OJ trial who said afterwards that they thought he did it but that there was a reasonable doubt remaining and that is all it takes. That means they did their job exactly correctly. Properly understood, the burden of proof in a criminal trial is very high. It is supposed to be hard to convict. That is one of the few remaining constraints on government power.

Juries are not perfect. They have biases. They misunderstand evidence and instructions. But they are closer to the truth than anyone else and there is NOBODY in a position to second-guess them. Not legally and not factually.

For anyone to say that this was a gross miscarriage of justice based on what they saw in the news media is absurd.
 
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