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In Zimmerman/Martin case, some see only what they want

There's an old joke about inkblot tests:

A psychiatrist shows his patient three amorphous inkblots and asks the patient what he sees.

"A topless woman, a naked man and orgy," the patient responds.

The doctor says he's noticing a disturbing trend — to which the patient responds: "Well, you're the one showing me all the dirty pictures."

The message is that people often see what they want to see. Which brings us to the George Zimmerman trial — this month's trial of the century … and our nation's current inkblot test.

Here, too, many people see only what they want. The only lessons learned are the ones they're convinced they already know.

If you were already convinced the world is full of young black thugs, well, there's a good chance that's what you saw in this case, too.

If you were convinced that minorities are unfairly profiled and unable to get equal justice, well, that's the story you see playing out again.

The perception divide goes well beyond race.

Take guns, for instance.

Gun-rights supporters hailed the case as proof that guns save lives. If Zimmerman hadn't carried a gun, they say, he wouldn't have been able to defend himself.

Yet gun-control proponents say the case proves that guns lead to unnecessary death and violence: If Zimmerman hadn't been carry a gun and feeling emboldened, no one would have died that night.

The exact same case supposedly proved the need for both more — and fewer — firearms.

It all depends on how you look at the inkblot — and what you are looking for.

USA Today recently compiled a roundup of pundits that was all over the map in lessons we were supposed to have learned. The headline read: "Zimmerman case divides those already decided." In other words: Everyone who already had a strong opinion was able to find something in this case to reinforce his or her beliefs.

As the trial has played out, witnesses have become the inkblots.

Nowhere was that more evident than in reaction to Martin's friend, Rachel Jeantel, the teenager who was the last person to speak with Trayvon Martin.

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I have to get up by 6am for the trial here. I'm in a daze a lot and miss things. I think that is why I don't post as much on this case. Glad I can read here.

Pish tosh. You always catch things and connect dots.

Ole Freddy Leatherhead and crew want so badly for GZ to testify. They know the states case is so weak the only chance they have is for GZ to take the stand and say something that opens the door for the prosecution to attempt to impeach him on the stand.

I don't see MoM/West or GZ making such a mistake. As RJ/DD would say "That's really retarded, Sir". I expect the defense will put on the a stellar case that blows the prosecutions case out the water.

You're very kind.

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Pish tosh. You always catch things and connect dots.

Just listened to the DD/Crump tape posted at CTH that Tara found on the ABC site...no way, no how is that gal Rachel...I wish O'Mara could do a voice analysis for the jury.

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Um, you say that like the state's witnesses didn't already blow their case out of the water!

Oh, I'm sure the Trayborg™ are desperate for anything to confirm their year-long, willfully-blind, faith. It was going to be the witnesses, then GZ's statements, then the forensics, blah, blah. The only thing left is GZ testimony. Everything else has blown up on the state. Making an icky mess too, from their perspective.

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