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Lack of ethical behavior is a major problem in our culture, if you ask me.

I think that many professions these days (politicians, trial attorneys, etc.) have an "us versus them" mindset. For politicians, it's GOP vs Dem. For trial attorneys, it's prosecutor vs defense. What they fail to realize is that they are simply different sides of the same coin. They are both working towards the SAME goal (good policies for the country and justice, respectively).

In this case, and I haven't heard a lot about it, I think that the prosecutors should be investigated. During discovery, they withheld evidence (reportedly) for months, delaying the trial and potentially endangering the outcome of the trial. Then, that stunt that they pulled on the last day by all of a sudden filing new charges of manslaughter, murder 3 and child abuse (only the manslaughter was allowed) was ludicrous. The defense had zero time to prepare a defense. They simply got lucky that the case that they had made was also a defense against manslaughter (self defense).

They were probably gunning for some state legislature seat or something and wanted to have "Zimmerman Conviction" on their CV. Plenty of prosecutors do shady stuff like this to keep up their conviction rate so that they can run on a "Tough on Crime!" platform for whatever rink a dink political office they are shooting for.

There is nothing more appalling than a corrupt prosecutor. Their sentences should be the harshest of all.