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How Can Overcharging Be Ethical?
In his latest Huffington
Post column,
former Reason writer Radley Balko notes the
controversy over special prosecutor Angela Corey's decision to
charge George Zimmerman with second-degree murder, as opposed
o manslaughter, in Trayvon Martin's death. Given the
circumstances in which Zimmerman shot Martin—during a violent
struggle in which Zimmerman claims he feared for his life—it seems
unlikely that he acted "from ill will, hatred, spite, or an evil
intent," as Florida's
standard jury instruction for second-degree murder requires.
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