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Originally Posted by TonyB06
This is GreekChat, not a Florida court of law. People go off uninformed everyday on this site about 100 different subjects. Nothing said here will impact the Zimmerman trial in any way, shape or form. It's a venue to express opinion, nothing more. Anyone foolish enough to take take information here w/out verifying it themselves, gets what they get.
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I wish this were true, but unfortunately, it's not. Public discourse and pretrial publicity are proven to influence juries in all sorts of cases, but particularly in "pop-culture" cases. We may not directly influence jurors, but we're adding to the public discourse, and not in a positive manner.
Hold yourself to a higher standard - just because we pop off all the time with inane and uninformed opinions doesn't mean it's something we should do in this instance. There's a difference between a trial and Pinterest, a distinction that is apparently being lost on some.
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