[Hoot Gibson]

He didn't employ stand your ground. Think federal hate crimes. He can still go to jail. FL law doesn't trump federal law if they go for civil rights charges, and hate crimes.

The fact that Zimmerman did not cite Florida's Stand Your Ground law should not preclude him from citing the law in a civil trial. Some day, you will regret your support of having an all powerful federal government that is free to trample the will of states and their citizens. You are correct, the federal government has the power to make Zimmerman's life a living hell on Earth and given the character of the people who possess that power, that is probably what will be done. Anybody who thinks that is a good thing is a fool. A tool that can be used to make somebody else's life miserable can be used to target other classes of people when it falls into different hands.

Zimmerman may be spared because he is a member of a demographic group that the DNC holds dear. Continuing to persecute a Hispanic, even one who has been demonized by hyphenation - a white-Hispanic, could easily backfire on Democrats. The real crime in this case is that political considerations are determining the fate of an innocent man.