What gives?

I was reading today the trial has been delayed 9 TIMES!!!!! It is now "scheduled" for August of this year.

How have a bunch of broke ass Miami thugs managed to pull this off?

really? who cares

Michael Wilbon said Taylor probably brought this on himself somehow.

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Hey I have not much sympathy for the guy. He was pretty much a thug himself and no doubt his lifestyle contributed to his demise. I just cant understand how a bunch of Miami low lifes have managed to keep this trial from happening for over 5 years? We arent talking about a bunch of rich jewish kids with daddy's lawyers here.

Stabitha Wrote:
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> Hey I have not much sympathy for the guy. He was
> pretty much a thug himself and no doubt his
> lifestyle contributed to his demise. I just cant
> understand how a bunch of Miami low lifes have
> managed to keep this trial from happening for over
> 5 years? We arent talking about a bunch of rich
> jewish kids with daddy's lawyers here.

Miami-Dade is a really fucked up county. Miami Beach is nice of course, but there is a ridiculous amount of crime on the mainland and a lotta corruption and ignorant assfuckery by the bureaucracy.

The only thing I remember Taylor getting into trouble for off field was threatening some dicksplash who stole his ATV. I think his father was a cop somewhere else in South Florida, don't recall where.

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Dude, I was literally just talking to sumone about Taylor's murder today.

 

WingNut Wrote:
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> >
> The only thing I remember Taylor getting into
> trouble for off field was threatening some
> dicksplash who stole his ATV. I think his father
> was a cop somewhere else in South Florida, don't
> recall where.

He had a DUI here in VA and there was also some involvment with a stolen car getting riddled with bullets in Miami.

He was also find by the NFL for spitting on another player. He was no angel.

friskydingo Wrote:
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> Dude, I was literally just talking to sumone about
> Taylor's murder today.

That was me you fuck wad!

Nothing but bones, worms ate his brain

I don't know, why haven't the skins won a superbowl with their overpayed players?

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hail to the foreskins!!!

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Stabitha Wrote:
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> What gives?
>
> I was reading today the trial has been delayed 9
> TIMES!!!!! It is now "scheduled" for August of
> this year.
>
> How have a bunch of broke ass Miami thugs managed
> to pull this off?


That us the way the justice system works in this country. If you are not happy with that please feel free to move to another country or go start your own country somewhere else you fucking asshole.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/14/sean-taylor-trial_n_4097857.html?utm_hp_ref=dc&ir=DC

Sean Taylor Murder Trial Finally About To Start In Miami
By CURT ANDERSON 10/14/13 01:17 PM ET EDT AP

MIAMI -- MIAMI (AP) — Nearly six years ago, All-Pro safety Sean Taylor was at home nursing an injury instead of taking the field with his Washington Redskins teammates for a road game at Tampa. Unfortunately, a group of young men from southwest Florida apparently didn't know that.

Prosecutors say the suspects drove across the state intending to burglarize Taylor's Miami-area home, confident he wouldn't be there. When the 6-foot-2, 230-pound player — well known as a ferocious hitter — confronted them with a machete early on Nov. 26, 2007, Eric Rivera Jr. allegedly fired two shots. One missed. The other hit Taylor in the upper leg, causing massive blood loss that led to his death a day later at age 24.

Finally, after numerous delays, jury selection is scheduled to begin Tuesday for Rivera's first-degree murder trial. Because Rivera, now 23, was only 17 at the time of the crime, he faces life in prison instead of the death penalty if convicted. Jury selection is expected to take about four days.

Four other people were also charged in the case. One of them, Venjah Hunte, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and burglary charges and is expected to testify against Rivera. The other three are scheduled to go to trial later on lesser charges. Hunte's plea deal calls for a 29-year prison term instead of life.

Although Taylor had some run-ins with the law and been fined several times by the NFL for various rules violations, his future seemed extremely bright before he was killed. The son of Florida City Police Chief Pedro Taylor and an All-American player at the University of Miami, the Redskins drafted Taylor with the fifth overall pick in the 2004 draft and he signed an $18 million contract.

Taylor quickly became a starter and was nicknamed "Meast" by teammates — a combination of man and beast — because of his hard-hitting style. He was named to the Pro Bowl after the 2006 season and was also very popular among Redskins players and fans. One of his best friends, wide receiver Santana Moss, said he still says "a little prayer" for Taylor every time he takes the field.

"I have a few people that have passed away in my life as friends that have meant something to me, and I'm always constantly speaking to them. That's just something I do. He's one of those guys," Moss said.

The Redskins contributed $500,000 to a fund for Taylor's young daughter after he died and, in the first game after his slaying, the team's defense took the field against Buffalo with only 10 players on the first play — leaving Taylor's free safety position vacant to honor him. Fans at that game got towels bearing his number, 21.

To many fans, players and others connected with both the Redskins and the "U'' at Miami, it was heartbreaking to see such a talented player's life and career cut short so brutally.

"He was a young man who was learning quickly how to be a great human being, and, to me, he was the best football player I've ever seen in person," said former Redskins tight end Chris Cooley, a nine-year veteran who now does broadcasts for the team. "He was the most physical, the most gifted, the hardest-working guy that I've been around, and it was such an unfortunate thing."

Former Redskins coach Joe Gibbs, now a NASCAR racing team owner, said Taylor began to mature and take a leadership role on the team after the birth of his daughter.

"It wound up being a true tragedy and it had a huge effect on all of us," Gibbs said of Taylor's killing. "He was one of those guys that with the way he played and his persona the way he was, he was a natural leader. You could see guys look to him from a leadership standpoint."

The fatal attempted burglary was not the first time there was a break-in at Taylor's home.

Police say someone pried open a window a few days earlier, on Nov. 17, and rifled through a desk and other belongings. No one was home that time, and it's not clear exactly what, if anything, was taken.

Then came the weekend after Thanksgiving with the Redskins playing the Buccaneers that Sunday. Taylor was given permission to stay home with a knee injury, along with his girlfriend, Jackie Garcia, and their 18-month-old daughter, also named Jackie.

Police say two of the men charged had connections to Taylor: Jason Scott Mitchell had cut Taylor's lawn and an older cousin of suspect Charles Wardlow had dated Taylor's sister. Family members also said Mitchell had recently been at a birthday party at Taylor's house, where Taylor was known to keep large amounts of cash.

Miami-Dade County's former police director, Robert Parker, said the defendants were surprised to find Taylor home early that Monday morning.

"They were certainly not looking to go there and kill anyone," Parker said. "They were expecting a residence that was not occupied."

Authorities say they have obtained confessions from at least some of the suspects, all from the Fort Myers area, but pretrial hearings on whether those statements will be allowed in Rivera's trial were closed by Circuit Judge Dennis Murphy. The judge also imposed a gag order on prosecutors and defense attorneys in hopes of limiting pretrial news media coverage that could make jury selection difficult.

The murder weapon has never been found. Prosecutors say it was thrown into the Everglades after the slaying while the group drove home across Alligator Alley.

here have already been at least seven previous trial dates set for Rivera. Cooley, for one, said it's time for justice to be done.

"Breaking into someone's home, into their personal safety blanket and shooting them in that environment is the most heinous, unthinkable crime that could have happened to a guy like Sean. It's despicable," Cooley said.

Just another dead nigger...

The media is still trying to portray Taylor as some sort of Angel. He was anything but. He had numerous run ins with the law, ran around with some thugs in Florida (home boys I'm sure) and was an out of wedlock baby daddy.

Great ball player yes. Bright future yes. But he was no "pillar of the community" by any stretch.

Stabitha Wrote:
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> The media is still trying to portray Taylor as
> some sort of Angel. He was anything but. He had
> numerous run ins with the law, ran around with
> some thugs in Florida (home boys I'm sure) and was
> an out of wedlock baby daddy.
>
> Great ball player yes. Bright future yes. But he
> was no "pillar of the community" by any stretch.


cool story, bro. all of this has no relevance to his death. people breaking into your house and shooting you when surprised you're home = not acceptable and that's the main point.

Ummmm actually it has a lot of relevance.

According to witnesses, Mr Taylor liked to flash lots of cash around the hood and that's why these young men targeted his home. They figured there would be piles of Benjamins laying around. One of them was actually a gang banger pal of Taylor's stepsister or cousin or something.

lolwtf24 Wrote:
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> cool story, bro. all of this has no relevance to
> his death. people breaking into your house and
> shooting you when surprised you're home = not
> acceptable and that's the main point.

It's acceptable when it's a dead nigger...

Jury finds accused Sean Taylor shooter guilty of 2nd-degree murder


BY PATRICIA MAZZEI
PMAZZEI@MIAMIHERALD.COM
The jury in the murder trial of football star Sean Taylor has found accused shooter Eric Rivera guilty of second-degree murder.

He was also found guilty of armed burglary, though jurors did not find Rivera of being in possession of a gun in the murder charge.

After 16 hours of deliberations over four days, the 12-member jury delivered its verdict Monday afternoon.

Rivera, 23, had been charged with first-degree murder in the death of Taylor, who played for the Washington Redskins and died six years ago after a group of men from Fort Myers broke into his Palmetto Bay home.

Despite the lesser charge, Rivera could still face up to life in prison.

Rivera stood quietly, holding his hands in front of him, as the verdict was announced. Jackie Garcia Haley, Taylor’s girlfriend, bent over in the court gallery and held her face in her hands.

When the 12 jurors went home Friday, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Dennis Murphy urged them to spend the weekend clearing their heads and not thinking about the closely watched case. The jury foreman admitted the third day of deliberations had been difficult.

Judge Murphy asked the jury to return to the courthouse by 9:45 a.m. They filed into the jury room about an hour late.

Moments earlier, corrections officers escorted Rivera into the courtroom. In the hallway, his mother hollered, “Eric!” Rivera turned around, smiled and mouthed, “Hi.”

The wait for a verdict following the emotional two-week trial took longer than either prosecutors from the Miami-Dade state attorney’s office or Rivera’s defense attorneys from Southwest Florida expected. Jurors were handed the case late Wednesday.

Prosecutors said Rivera, then 17, and four other men made the trip across Alligator Alley on Interstate 75 in November 2007 intent on raiding the thousands of dollars in cash they thought Taylor kept inside his Old Cutler Road house. One of the men had attended a birthday party there for Taylor’s sister and had seen Taylor gift her $10,000 tucked in a new purse.

To the men’s surprise, Taylor, 24, was not in Tampa with the Redskins that night — but at home, asleep with his girlfriend and their 18-month-old daughter.

In prosecutors’ version of the events, Rivera kicked open the master bedroom door and, upon seeing Taylor, who was holding a small machete, shot him in the groin. The bullet hit Taylor’s femoral artery, which supplies much of the blood to the lower half of the body. He died the next day.

Prosecutors played jurors a videotaped confession Rivera gave police a few days after the murder. He made the same admission two years ago in a court hearing while he was under oath.

They also pointed to a letter Rivera penned in jail to a cousin, asking him to pressure a key prosecution witness to change her testimony; to cell phone records between Rivera and the other men accused in the case, and to footprint marks found in Taylor’s house that prosecutors say match Rivera’s shoes.

The defense countered that Rivera only tagged along for the ride and never even left the burglars’ car.

The confession, Rivera said when he testified in the trial, was coerced by police who claimed Rivera’s family was being threatened because of his role in Taylor’s death. He said he had previously lied in court so that he wouldn’t have to testify against one of his buddies also charged in the crime.

As for the jailhouse letter, it was an attempt to bolster his defense at the time, Rivera said. He chalked up the cell phone calls to one of his friends in the group who often borrowed his phone, and he said he was not wearing the Nike Shox sneakers identified in the footprints.

Three of the other four accused men have pleaded not guilty and are awaiting trial. The fourth pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and is serving 29 years in prison.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/11/04/3730780/jury-to-resume-deliberations-in.html#storylink=cpy