Bottom line with this case is that the fact that the cops and prosecutors didn't take this seriously poisoned the jury pool and that had more to do with the final outcome than anything that happened in the court room...
Like it has been observed... If a white kid had been offed by the black neighborhood watch volunteer there would have been immediate charges and a much different outcome...
Southern justice is what we have witnessed... No different from when the KKK shot the demonstrators in Greensboro and got away with it... Same thing that happened to Emmett Till...
But there are folks here at Mudcat that are no better than the KKKers who go out and shoot innocent black people... That's pretty sad but apparently true...