06-04-2013, 11:30 PM
(06-04-2013, 12:10 PM)Adub Wrote:(06-04-2013, 11:24 AM)Midwest Spy Wrote: Some of the images, texts, etc.
17 year-olds aren't just out handling guns on a whim. It's because they're surrounded by people that are leading them down the wrong path.
The gun photo? OMG! It was being held by a black hand. Must have been Trayvon's black hand. And it has yet to even be authenticated. You do know that photos can be uploaded off the internet. Just because one has a photo on a social media site, or even on their cell phone, does not mean that they took the photo. Get with the times, MS.
I am disappointed in the defense team for releasing false statements about video of Trayvov's friend's fighting - in court, via the internet, and to the Orlando Sentinel.
A statement posted to Zimmerman’s legal defense website on Sunday said:
During the Tuesday, May 28th hearing, Mr. O’Mara misstated the nature of video from Trayvon Martin’s cell phone which was included in the Defendant’s 3rd Supplemental Discovery. He stated that the video showed “two buddies of his beating up a homeless guy,” when what happened was Trayvon Martin, along with a buddy, was videotaping two homeless guys fighting each other over a bike. Though it was unintentional, it is a particular concern to us because we are and have been committed to disputing misinformation in every aspect of this case, not causing it. For that, Mr. O’Mara apologizes.
Given this, no reason for me to accept that the photo of a hand holding a gun belongs to Trayvon, even if it mattered. I don't care about any of the photos/images that Judge Nelson ruled inadmissible in court due to irrelevance, as per the rules of evidence.
But, this was either an extremely underhanded and unethical act, or an unbelievably irresponsible and sloppy one. Terrible lawyering by O'Mara either way.