Zimmerman verdict: Not Guilty.

[Tiberius]

Sometimes, being too logical as a judge allows for the real criminals to go free. It happens all the time in the imperfect justice system.

What is your alternative? Rely on gut instinct?

However, just because the system states someone is innocent does not make it so. The opposite is true as well.

I don't think you understand the justice system. It never states someone is "innocent". Rather, it finds people "guilty" or "not guilty". I am aware that the system sometimes makes mistakes, and a judgement is not absolute truth. However, for society to function properly we must treat a judgement as truth. It would be highly unjust and unfair to do otherwise.

It is healthier to have doubt than to place all of one's faith in a single decision, after all.

This is what I have been saying through the entire thread by the way. Unfortunately, you apply your own advice selectively.

I think attention whores make consciously overt gestures to highlight themselves? Even if Zim doesn't think he wants attention, he seems to keep finding it. His repeated run ins with the law are indicative of...something. As a comparison, I personally have to go back 20 years to come up with a single instance of lawlessness.(Speeding ticket.) Regardless of his motivations, I do think a bad ending likely.

Again, he only "keeps finding it" because the media focus on him. Plenty of people get speeding tickets, plenty of people get divorces and get into arguments during them. None of these people get stories written about them; Zimmerman is only different because he won a controversial court case. I'm not entirely sure what your comparison was meant to prove; I'm sure collectively we can come up with plenty of other examples of people here who have committed crimes in the past year.

He may be an amateur. His attitude, however, to place himself in situations where the media finds him is indicative of the hero complex. However, it may not be as complex or intelligently thought out.

Have you got any proof at all of this? Didn't think so. Like I said before, unless he personally calls the media when he gets pulled over by the cops, or has an argument with his wife, I can't really see how you are coming to these conclusions.

I cannot recall the technical term or even find it online right now, but it is where an individual sets up premeditated situations where he harms an individual in order to save him. Trayvon could have been Zimmerman's first real attempt, but he ended up killing the kid instead. Zimmerman's second media exploit would explain the heroism syndrome. Is that what it is called?

Pretty sure the first one is called "self-defense" and the second is called "being a nice guy".

I have yet to see any evidence that the criminal is innocent.

The jury however, did not find enough evidence to suggest guilt.