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They did NOT establish definitively that it was self defense.

The verdict established that the murders were not premeditated, which they weren’t.

For the charge of 1st degree murder the prosecution had to prove premeditation which they were unable to do, hence the not guilty.

For some inexplicable reason, the prosecution failed to also charge 2nd degree, which would have likely received a guilty verdict.

Please note the distinction: while the defense certainly argued self defense, the not guilty verdict does not prove the defense theory to be correct, it simply proves the prosecution did not meet their burden of proof regarding premeditation, nothing more.

In the US legal system, people are not proclaimed innocent, they are found to be guilty or not guilty. Not guilty of one particular charge does not mean that the defendant is innocent of all crimes.

I watched the entire trial.

He wasn’t charged correctly.

Had he been charged with 2nd degree murder he would have been convicted.

It’s almost complete… just need to add a camera.

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Many things come from my anus

My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.

Boy am I ugly. I’m so ugly that when I was born the doctor slapped my mother.

My mother, she wouldn’t breastfeed me, she said she liked me as a friend.

My mother had morning sickness after I was born.

Then later as I was growing up, when I played in the sandbox the cat kept covering me up.

On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.

Boy I was an ugly kid. I had plenty of pimples, one day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.

I met the surgeon general, he gave me a cigarette.

Then I told my dentist my teeth are going yellow. he told me to wear a brown tie.

I told my doctor I want to get a vasectomy. He told me that with a face like mine, I don’t need one.

I told my doctor, “Every day I wake up, I look in the mirror, I want to throw up. What’s wrong with me?” He said, “I don’t know, but your eyesight is perfect.

I tell ya, I know I’m ugly. My proctologist stuck his finger in my mouth.

I am to be trusted

Yea pretty much… a good time for the white men of property at least.

Those blockades came in 1861, but for decades prior, the white people in the south prospered off of their free labor. The south was wealthy and its economy was rapidly growing. That all went to shit for them when as you said the UK stopped buying their cotton.