美国白人陪审团判殴打移民致死的白人无罪zt

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http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/02/pa.immigrant.beating/index.html
Friends and relatives of two teens accused in the beating death of a Mexican immigrant struggled to contain their relief as not-guilty verdicts were announced on the most serious charges against the former high school football stars Friday.
Gasps filled the courtroom and some had to be restrained by sheriff's deputies as they tried to rush the defense table after Derrick Donchak, 19, and Brandon Piekarsky, 17, were acquitted of aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and ethnic intimidation for the death of Luis Ramirez.
Piekarsky was also found not guilty of third-degree murder for the death of Ramirez, who died of blunt force injuries after an encounter with the teens last summer.
However, the all-white jury of six men and six women from Schuylkill County jury found Piekarsky and Donchak guilty of simple assault.
The case drew national attention to the small town of Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, highlighting race relations and polarizing the community on who was to blame for the incident.
Lawyers for the teens never denied that their clients were involved in a physical altercation with Ramirez on a residential street the night of July 12.
Instead, they tried to cast Ramirez as the aggressor, and suggested that the other teens involved in the tangle of punches and blows were to blame.
"In my mind it was the lack of evidence to tie these kids to the serious charges that they brought," defense lawyer Frederick Fanelli said.
A cast of witnesses provided conflicting accounts regarding who initiated the encounter and who exactly did what, complicating prosecutors' efforts to assign blame.
"If you ask most prosecutors who are dealing with multiple defendants, and in this particular case there were at least four, it is extraordinary difficult to clear the fog of a fight," truTV anchor Ashleigh Banfield said.
The 25-year-old Mexican immigrant had settled in Shenandoah a year before his death with his wife, a lifelong resident of the faltering mining town, and their young children.
He was walking down a residential street with a friend when he encountered the group of teens, who had been drinking earlier in the evening. Donchak was convicted of providing alcohol to the other teens who were involved in the confrontation, including a juvenile co-defendant and another teen who pleaded guilty in federal court for his role in the fight.
Prosecutors alleged that the teens baited the Ramirez into a fight with racial epithets, provoking an exchange of punches and kicks that ended with Ramirez convulsing in the street, foaming from the mouth. He died two days later in a hospital.
Piekarsky was accused of delivering a fatal kick to Ramirez's head after he was knocked to the ground.
As they poured out of courthouse, the teens' supporters shouted "I was right from the start" and "I'm glad the jury listened" at cameras that caught the late-night verdict.
But Gladys Limon, a spokeswoman for the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund, said the jury had sent a troubling message.
"The jurors here [are] sending the message that you can brutally beat a person, without regard to their life, and get away with it, continue with your life uninterrupted," she said.
"In this case, the message is that a person who may not be popular in society based on their national origin or certain characteristic has less value in our society," she said.
The extent of Ramirez's injuries, which had left his brain oozing from his skull, according to medical testimony, should have sufficed for a conviction other than simple assault, Limon said.
"The acts here were egregious in brutality and it's just outrageous and very difficult to understand how any juror could have had reasonable doubt, especially as to the aggravated assault and the reckless enganderment charges," she said.
Limon said her group intends to press the Department of Justice to file federal charges against the teens.
"Luis Ramirez's family deserves vindication for his death," she said. "This incident has not only disrupted Luis Ramirez's family, but the entire community."

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朋友和亲戚的两个十几岁被告殴打死亡的墨西哥移民难以控制自己的救济不有罪判决公布的最严重指控的前足球明星高中星期五。

敌对填补法庭，一些人将受县治安官发言人试图匆忙国防井架Donchak表后， 19日，和布兰登Piekarsky ， 17人被宣告无罪的严重攻击，鲁莽危害和种族恐吓的死亡路易斯拉米雷斯。

Piekarsky还发现不认罪的第三一级谋杀罪的死亡拉米雷斯，谁死于钝器伤后遇到的青少年去年夏天。

然而，所有白人组成的陪审团的六男六女从斯库尔基尔县陪审团裁定有罪Piekarsky和Donchak简单的攻击。

案件提请国家注意小城镇雪兰，宾夕法尼亚州，突出种族关系和两极化的社会就谁是导致这一事件。

律师青少年从来没有否认过，它们的客户参与了物理争吵与拉米雷斯的住宅街日晚7月12日。

相反，他们试图演员拉米雷斯为侵略者，并建议其他青少年参与缠结的出拳和打击了责任。

“在我看来，这是由于缺乏证据，以配合这些孩子的严重指控，他们带来了”辩护律师弗雷德里克Fanelli说。

铸造证人提供的矛盾就开始遇到谁，谁到底做了什么，复杂检察官努力指责。

“如果你问大多数检察官谁正在处理多个被告，并在这一具体案例，至少有四个，这是非常难以清除雾的斗争， ” truTV锚女记者班菲尔德说。

这位25岁的墨西哥移民定居在雪兰一年前他的死亡与他的妻子，终身居民摇摇欲坠采矿镇，和他们年幼的子女。

他走的住宅街与一个朋友，他遇到了一群十几岁，谁喝了在傍晚提早。 Donchak被定罪提供酒精其他青少年谁参与了对抗，其中包括一名少年共同被告及另一名少年认罪谁在联邦法院对他的作用的斗争中。

检察官指控说，十几岁的拉米雷斯诱饵成一个打击种族歧视辱骂，挑起交流出拳和踢结束与拉米雷斯震撼在街上，泡沫从嘴里。他于两日后在医院。

Piekarsky被指控提供一个致命球，以拉米雷斯的头部后，他被撞倒在地上。

因为他们涌出法庭，对青少年的支持者高呼“我是从一开始”和“我很高兴陪审团听取”的相机引起了深夜的判决。

但格拉迪斯利蒙的发言人墨西哥美洲法律辩护和教育基金，说陪审团发出了一个令人不安的消息。

“这里的陪审员[是]发出了这样的信息，您可以野蛮殴打一个人，而不考虑他们的生活，摆脱它，你的生活继续进行不间断的， ”她说。

“在这种情况下，信息是，一个人谁不得在社会上流行的基础上他们的民族血统或某些特征少价值在我们的社会， ”她说。

拉米雷斯的程度的伤害，造成了他的大脑渗血从他的颅骨，根据医疗证明，应该有足够的信念以外的其他简单的攻击，利蒙说。

“的行为在这里是令人震惊的暴行和它只是残暴和非常难以了解任何陪审员可能有合理的怀疑，特别是对严重攻击和鲁莽enganderment费用， ”她说。

利蒙说，她的组打算按司法部文件联邦指控青少年。

“路易斯拉米雷斯的家人值得证明对他的死亡， ”她说。 “这起事件不仅扰乱路易斯拉米雷斯的家人，但对整个社会。 ”