Twists and Turns to the Trayvon Martin Saga

Now, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has descended into the fray. She wants an ‘immediate investigation’ of not only this, but similar cases that calls into question the quality of justice delivery. Read http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9189884/Trayvon-Martin-killing-UN-human-rights-chief-calls-for-investigation.html. Some would charge that this is presumptuous, since the matter is still under investigation. The question in retort is, for how long should this investigation drag?

Although some media networks have attempted to unduly hype, and in some cases ‘tweak’ the facts -an MSNBC reporter was recently relieved of his job for doing just that – the point remains that the due process has been sluggish. It appears the Special Prosecutor will be undermining convoking a grand jury and proceed to make her report/opinion public soon, after reviewing all of the facts. She will then decide one way or the other, whether to cause Zimmerman’s arrest and prosecution and/or instruct on what steps to take to resolve this tragic incident.

The morale of this case should not be lost. It’s about scrupulous adherence to the law. For me, it’s about justice for all concerned – both to Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman- so that at the end, everybody would be rest assured that justice was done. At the moment, leaving the case in abeyance has tended to throw in extraneous and sometimes irrelevant considerations. Experience shows that, these usually are the warning signals and precursor to wrongful conviction cases, when the facts are ‘everywhere’. We all await the decision of the Special Prosecutor.