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Adub,

If you want your very own young black man to mother, let me know. I can grab one off the street and nobody will notice.
(07-05-2012, 10:17 PM)Cracker Wrote: [ -> ]Adub,

If you want your very own young black man to mother, let me know. I can grab one off the street and nobody will notice.

Hell yea. I've already mothered a few. They are much more accustomed to threats of violence. White kids, not so much. White kids laugh in the face of danger.
K. I'll crank up the music and go downtown. I should be able to get at least one at the gas station on Boulevard with the bulletproof glass. If not, I will cruise the projects by the state capital building. You want a dime, too?
(07-05-2012, 07:07 PM)Sterling Wrote: [ -> ]
(07-05-2012, 06:07 PM)Lady Cop Wrote: [ -> ]

[the court] said it appeared the defendant had been preparing to flee the country.

Now that statement isn't the least bit prejudicial at all, is it? No doubt in my mind that a fair trial is definitely in this man's immediate future.


actually, the judge was not prejudicial in making that statement while giving his ruling and opinion. it was the appropriate time to disclose whatever factors that influenced him in re: the bond. it would be different if he had made a comment about the case in chief. he also stated Z had flouted the system.
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Martin's parents are expected to hold a news conference today in New Orleans alongside the Rev. Al Sharpton and their attorneys to react to the judge's decision to set bond.

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George Zimmerman could be released from jail again Friday.

Judge Kenneth Lester set Zimmerman’s bond at $1 million Thursday.

Zimmerman’s attorney Mark O'Mara said he intends to get his client released on bond soon.

According to O'Mara's website, the defense team will be working in the coming hours and days to get him out of jail.

However, it's not going to be easy for them.

Zimmerman will have to go through his bail bondsman, and pay 10 percent of the bond amount, which is $100,000.

O’Mara said the online legal defense fund set up for Zimmerman currently has $211,000.

However, in order for Zimmerman to be released, he has to have $1 million in collateral, which O’Mara said the Zimmerman family does not have.
Z was just released from jail.
i think he's wearing a bullet-proof vest under shirt.


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More info today
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/os-george-zi...full.story

Sanford police took one position on Trayvon shooting in public, another in paperwork to prosecutors

During an exclusive interview, then-Sanford police Chief Bill Lee Jr., left, and lead investigator Chris Serino talk March 16 about the Trayvon Martin shooting incident. (Red Huber, Orlando Sentinel file / July 7, 2012)

8:30 p.m. EDT, July 7, 2012
SANFORD — While publicly saying one thing — that they did not have enough evidence to arrest George Zimmerman — Sanford police did essentially the opposite: filing paperwork saying they had enough to charge him with manslaughter.

It's something the department kept secret for two months, according to documents recently released by the special prosecutor in the case.

Here are their words versus their actions on three key dates, all from one tumultuous week about two weeks after Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black 17-year-old:

At 4 p.m. March 12, Sanford police Chief Bill Lee Jr. stood in City Hall plaza in front of a hostile crowd and dozens of reporters and insisted his agency could not arrest Zimmerman because investigators had failed to establish probable cause, the minimal standard of evidence to justify filing a criminal case.

The next day, however, his agency sent prosecutors paperwork saying it did have probable cause and asked that they charge Zimmerman with manslaughter.

It was signed by lead Investigator Chris Serino and his boss, then-Sgt. Randy Smith, but it was the department's official position and had the support of Lee, said Capt. Bob O'Connor, who oversees the department's major-crimes division and also was part of the investigation.

The request was sent to State Attorney Norm Wolfinger, whose office then took over the investigation.

Three days later, on March 16, Lee and several Sanford officers involved in the case, including Serino, went over some of the details of their investigation with the Orlando Sentinel.

They insisted they were prohibited by law from arresting or charging Zimmerman because they didn't have enough evidence to disprove his claim of self-defense.

"If we had arrested him," Lee said that day, "we feel we would have violated his constitutional rights. … I'm not going to violate the trust and oath that I took and arrest somebody, violate their rights."

Said Serino, "The best evidence we have is the testimony of George Zimmerman. … We did not have enough for an arrest warrant."

Police and prosecutors use the same evidentiary standard — probable cause — whether they arrest someone at the scene of a crime, do it later using an arrest warrant or file a criminal charge directly without an arrest.

Lee, fired two weeks ago, would not discuss why he said one thing in public but had his agency quietly ask prosecutors to charge Zimmerman. A public-relations agency issued a short statement that it attributed to him:

"As I have stated consistently, at the time and based on the evidence and testimony we had, we did not have probable cause to make a physical arrest."

His agency recommended the manslaughter charge on paper, the statement said, because without it, prosecutors would not have taken over the investigation.

A week and a half later, the investigation was out of Wolfinger's hands as well. Gov. Rick Scott appointed Special Prosecutor Angela Corey, and on April 11, she charged Zimmerman with second-degree murder and had him arrested.

Department spokesman Sgt. David Morgenstern and Mayor Jeff Triplett both said they had no idea why Lee and Serino said one thing in public but filed paperwork saying the opposite.

At the time, Sanford police were being pummeled by critics who accused them of conducting an inept and biased investigation and covering up for a wannabe cop.

The most vocal at the time were local leaders of the Urban League and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown and scores of local black Sanford residents, some of whom accused the department of a long history of harassing blacks and ignoring black crime victims.

An estimated 400 people packed a Sanford church March 14 for a rally organized by a black televangelist from Baltimore.

Much of the evidence gathered by Sanford police, including paperwork, photos, witness statements and videos, has since been released and gives a fuller picture of how much work the agency did and how fully the agency investigated Trayvon's shooting.

Sanford police repeatedly canvassed the neighborhood looking for witnesses, handcuffed Zimmerman and took him to police headquarters, where they interrogated him that night before releasing him but kept his gun and clothes and took DNA samples.

They also re-interviewed him several times; had him undergo a voice-stress analysis, a lower-tech version of a lie-detector test; and aggressively challenged inconsistencies in his account.

It was the release by the special prosecutor on May 17 and June 26 of records documenting Sanford police work that revealed that when they handed off the case to prosecutors, police reported they had enough evidence to charge Zimmerman.

Several news organizations reported in late March that Serino wanted to charge Zimmerman the night of the shooting, but there have been no official records released to date by Corey that reflect that, and Serino's public comments March 16 do not suggest that.

"He says the decedent was the primary aggressor in the whole event," Serino said that day. "Everything I have is adding up to what he says."

His managers at the Police Department told the Sentinel he would not answer questions about the discrepancy.

Zimmerman told police he shot Trayvon in self-defense after the teenager knocked him to the ground with a single punch, then began pounding his head on a sidewalk.

Moments earlier, Zimmerman had called police, reported Trayvon as a suspicious person and stepped out of his truck and followed him on foot.

Sanford police say they did not arrest Zimmerman because attorneys in Wolfinger's office advised them that night and in following days that they did not have enough evidence.

Prosecution records verify that those conversations took place but not what was said.

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Special Prosecutor Angela Corey has just released another round of evidence in her second-degree murder case against George Zimmerman, including a first look at what FBI agents have turned up in their civil rights investigation.

Orlando Sentinel reporters are reviewing the records. Check back for updates.

There are no expected blockbusters.

Some of the evidence are interviews of Sanford police officers involved in the case by Corey's investigators.
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he's confined to seminole county...someone will out him before long.
Martin's shirt

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(CNN) -- George Zimmerman, charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, had a "little hero complex" but was not a racist, a Sanford, Florida, homicide investigator told federal agents, according to reports released Thursday.

In an interview with FBI agents in March, investigator Chris Serino told authorities he "believed that Zimmerman's actions were not based on Martin's skin color, rather based on his attire, (same as local gang) the total circumstances of the encounter and the previous burglary suspects in the community," according to an FBI report.
nice shot
(07-12-2012, 09:38 PM)SIXFOOTERsez Wrote: [ -> ]nice shot

you mean the photo?







er... nevermind.
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SANFORD

George Zimmerman's attorneys want to disqualify the judge who is presiding over his second-degree murder trial.

The motion filed Friday says Zimmerman "has a reasonable fear that he cannot get a fair trial or a fair stand your ground hearing by this court."

yep, the motion for a hearing is coming.



The motion specifically mentions the new bail Judge Kenneth Lester set for George Zimmerman earlier this month. The motion says Lester made disparaging remarks about Zimmerman's character, says he should be "prosecuted for additional crimes," and is holding the threat of future contempt proceedings over Zimmerman's head.

The judge revoked Zimmerman's first $150,000 bond, and had him rearrested after he allegedly misled the court as to how much money he had available in a fund for his defense.

The motion also says the court is not weighing any evidence of Zimmerman's innocence in the case when determining bond, other than to say "the only issue is the viability of the defendant's self-defense/Stand Your Ground claim" but they also accuse the judge of not discussing that issue either.

The motion also says:

"The court departed from its role as an impartial, objective minister of justice when it stated on two occasions in its order that in the court's personal opinion there is probable cause to believe that the defendant committed a violation of Florida Statute 903.035(3), a third degree felony punishable by five years in prison. This is tantamount to instructing the state that Mr. Zimmerman should be prosecuted for this offense."


the citation:

FS 903.035(3)
 Any person who intentionally provides false or misleading material information or intentionally omits material information in connection with an application for bail or for modification of bail is guilty of a misdemeanor or felony which is one degree less than that of the crime charged for which bail is sought.
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Oh Shit...
Z is a Chester

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/t...6348.story

By Rene Stutzman and Jeff Weiner, Orlando Sentinel

1:12 p.m. EDT, July 16, 2012
A woman told authorities that while they were children, murder suspect George Zimmerman sexually molested her for a decade, according to prosecution records released today.

The woman, identified only as "witness 9," said the abuse started when she was six and ended when she was 16. Zimmerman, she said, is about two years older than her.

That bombshell is part of a new set of evidence just released by Special Prosecutor Angela Corey.

She today released witness 9's statement plus 120 recorded jail phone calls made by Zimmerman when he was in the Seminole County Jail.

In a statement released several weeks ago, witness 9 told Sanford police that Zimmerman does not like blacks. In the audio-recorded interview released today, she reiterated that but without providing specifics.

Zimmerman's family, she said, "don't like black people if they don't act like white people. They like black people if they act white."

Had she seen George Zimmerman act with hostility toward a black person, she was asked.

No, she said.

Defense attorney Mark O'Mara made a last-minute attempt to block the release of witness 9's statement as well as the jail calls. He filed a motion this morning at the Seminole County Courthouse, asking that they be delayed, but Corey's office released them anyway. A pending court order required their release.

Witness 9 told prosecutors the molestation began when she and Zimmerman, who is two years older than her, were young children. Her parents were moving to another state and she and her sister were sent to stay with Zimmerman's family in Virginia.

"We would all lay in front of the TV" to watch movies, she said, "and he would reach under the blankets and try to do things. … I would try to push him off, but he was bigger and stronger and older," she said.

He touched her improperly, she said, and at least once, when she was 12, forced her to touch him.

The last sexual encounter, she said, happened when she visited Zimmerman's family in Lake Mary. He directed her to lay on a bed and began to massage her, she said.

"I just got up and I ran out of the house and I got in my car," she said, adding that Zimmerman "only chased me to the front door."

She and her parents eventually confronted Zimmerman at an Orlando-area restaurant, she said. Zimmerman said he was sorry and left, she said.

In private, she said, Zimmerman was different than when he was around a group of people.

"He always was just, you know, very charming and personable with everyone … and just would laugh and entertain everybody," she said. "But he was different behind closed doors with me."

Investigators asked her why she decided to come forward now.

"This is the first time in my life that I'm not afraid of him," she replied.

Sentinel reporters are reviewing Zimmerman's jail calls. Check back for more on what they reveal.
Besides showing he might be scummy that seems irrelevant to the current case. Weird.
True
sounds like he was an anxious teen and oversexed young man trying his luck. BFD.

i am waiting to see if Judge recuses himself today.
what a crock. i wonder if Hannity pays for interviews.

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George Zimmerman told a national TV audience on Wednesday that he doesn't regret anything that happened the night he shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.

"I feel like it was all God's plan," he told conservative talk show host Sean Hannity in Zimmerman's first interview since the shooting. Harp

Toward the end of the hourlong interview, however, Zimmerman backtracked on that statement.

"I do wish there was something, anything I could have done that wouldn't have put me in a position where I would have had to take a life," he said. "I do want to tell everyone I'm sorry that this happened. I hate to think that because of this incident, because of my actions, it has polarized, divided America. I'm truly sorry." COACHED!

There were few surprises in the interview on Fox News. Zimmerman, with attorney Mark O'Mara sitting next to him, was calm, unemotional and accepted no responsibility for the violence that night.

"I am not a racist. I am not a murderer," he said.

He apologized again to Trayvon's parents.

"I would tell them that again I'm sorry. I don't have, my wife and I don't have any children. … I am sorry that they buried their child. I can't imagine what it must feel like, and I pray for them daily," he said. 30