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Attorney speaks out for Zimmerman (more info)
My Fox Tampa ^ | 23 March 2012 | My Fox Tampa

Posted on 03/24/2012 4:27:07 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi

ORLANDO - An attorney representing George Zimmerman is speaking out, saying his client is not a racist, and that he acted in self-defense the night Trayvon Martin was shot and killed.

Craig Sonner spoke with FOX 35 in Orlando. He said he did not know George Zimmerman's location. He said due to death threats, he has been advising Zimmerman to avoid going out in public.

He referred to a flier saying Zimmerman was "Wanted dead or alive."

"I have advised him to stay out the public eye as much as he can," Sonner said.

Sonner also gave more details about injuries Zimmerman sustained that night.

"He did suffer a broken nose, and he has an injury to the back of his head which should have required stitches. I think he was delayed in getting to the doctor and having stitches put in. But he did sustain injuries to his head," Sonner said.

Sonner said portrayals of his client as a racist are not accurate. As an example, he cited Zimmerman's participation in fundraisers for an African-American church in the Orlando area.

Sonner said Zimmerman was under "a lot of stress."

"He's very concerned about the grave situation he's in. There's a young man who is now deceased in this situation, he's very concerned about that," Sonner said.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: banglist; martin; trayvonmartin; zimmerman
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To: Erik Latranyi

He is clearly Hispanic and his father says he has many black family members and friends.


21 posted on 03/24/2012 4:58:40 AM PDT by sueQ (SueQ)
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To: Erik Latranyi

it sounds like zimmerman was sucker punched after talking to martin. zimmerman was on the ground with two head wounds yelling for help and then a shot was fired. may have been a tussle for the gun. The commies desperately overplayed their hand when hearing the name george zimmerman. Now the truth is coming out and they have turned into an idiot mob. the commies were looking for something to get their race riots going for the usurper’s re-selection.


22 posted on 03/24/2012 5:02:56 AM PDT by biggredd1
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To: Erik Latranyi

You forget Baracky in your list of folks who have already tried and convicted Zimmerman. Trayvon was in a gated community, i.e, tresspassing for starters. I know, not a shooting offense.
Obviously the race card will be played at every opportunity during the election cycle. Media was shocked to learn that Zimmerman is a Latino.

Waiting for La Raza to join in the fun.


23 posted on 03/24/2012 5:05:08 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine's brother (Near term Obamacare 'Unit")
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To: HarleyD
One has to wonder why the black church isn’t coming to his side.

Perhaps they are and and it's not being reported.
Or maybe they are hiding him and don't want publicity.

24 posted on 03/24/2012 5:06:52 AM PDT by Salman
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To: hal ogen

I saw how that worked with the Rodney King beating; cops acquitted, try something else.

What a hoax.


25 posted on 03/24/2012 5:07:40 AM PDT by kearnyirish2
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To: Erik Latranyi
Prejudice...means to pre judge and arrive at a conclusion before all of the facts are known. Everyone needs to take a step back and chill.
26 posted on 03/24/2012 5:09:50 AM PDT by JPG (Hold on tight; rough road ahead.)
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To: kearnyirish2
You can bet your ass that they are going to trump up some charge on him. They have to to satisfy the lynch mob of "conservatives" on this forum.Zimmerman is in trouble not because of what he did but who he did it to. Was it a good shooting? I don't know, I wasn't there, but the Sanford Police Department Dispatched An Officer[s] to the scene. The evidence at the scene consistent with the law,and as a result there was no arrest. That is one indication that a law was not violated. Also, the incident occured several days past, not, as the media has implied, in the last few hours.If he comes clear in State Court, Holder's goons will pick it up.

But to those who fanning the flames, Zimmerman is not the issue, Zimmerman has become a tool to further their main agenda. Theis agenda is? Three things: 1. Repeal of Florida's "Stand Your Ground Law". 2.Repeal of Florida's Concealed Carry Law. 3. Gin up support for obama by infering that Whitey is out to get me [obama]too. We must stick together. That Zimmerman is not White got lost in the same fog that obama is Black is.

This where things stand with Zimmerman. His guilt of innocence at this point is now moot. The media and instigators have declared him guilty in the court of public opinion. Zimmerman should get his affairs in order because at some point down the road, on some charge, he is going to prison.

27 posted on 03/24/2012 5:11:15 AM PDT by sport
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To: NYer

“My guess is to raise sufficient public outcry that enough people will demand that guns be outlawed.”

That would be the expectation here in the northeast; for people down south the image of the much larger kid pummeling the smaller guy will make them buy more guns (as it should).

I think the media wants to run with the “white perp” story, and it was up-ended when the photo circulated. I haven’t see the shooter on the news, so maybe they’re still working on the people who don’t use PCs.


28 posted on 03/24/2012 5:11:15 AM PDT by kearnyirish2
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To: Erik Latranyi

Obama been laudin’ that martial law, whitey killing a black is exactly the crisis he needs; he won’t let it go to waste.


29 posted on 03/24/2012 5:11:47 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Jim Noble
“Stand your ground”, in order to be good law, has to cover all kinds of people in all (normal and expected) mental states, all the time. I’m not sure that “stand your ground” doesn’t set up situations like this one for recurrence.

Spoken like a true liberal. A person has the right to defend themselves even if they managed to piss someone off to the point the other person attacks them physically. If your life is in danger you have the right to use deadly force to protect it. You are saying that "no, a person doesn't have that right if they pissed the other person off". As for having a CCW escalating the situation that is pure BS, concealed means just that, concealed. Apparently the law knows the guy isn't guilty of murder or he would have had his CCW pulled by now.

Stand your ground laws are good laws and have reduced the crime rate in Florida, and other states, by a huge amount since being enacted and have saved many lives. People with your attitude don't belong on a conservative forum.

30 posted on 03/24/2012 5:12:05 AM PDT by calex59
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To: Erik Latranyi

Some thug/gang sign pictures of TM are showing up on the net. His family scrubbed Facebook after he died.


31 posted on 03/24/2012 5:12:21 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: Erik Latranyi
"He did suffer a broken nose, and he has an injury to the back of his head which should have required stitches.

Photos of which should be in Zimmerman's case file but the MSM has failed to ask for them........

I guess it's more convenient to publish nice pics of a smiling 11 year old boy.

32 posted on 03/24/2012 5:12:33 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (No matter what you post here, someone's going to get pissed off......)
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To: Erik Latranyi

Look at the photos at the bottom.

What do the codes mean?

http://backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/2012/03/23/george-zimmerman-and-trayvon-martin-what-we-dont-know/

Anyone here speak Jive?


33 posted on 03/24/2012 5:14:47 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: Jim Noble

But according to what is in the police report (sorry,don’t have marktwain’s police report pdf thread handy) he did de-escalate by heading back to his truck.


35 posted on 03/24/2012 5:17:16 AM PDT by cport (How can political capital be spent on a bunch of ingrates)
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To: devolve

Here’s TM’s favorite music ... big Dogg Fee which was mentioned on his Facebook.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op5ZG4ryH1I&feature=youtube_gdata_player


36 posted on 03/24/2012 5:18:46 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: sport

I disagree with #3; this is not good for Obama. Many blacks were going to vote for him anyway, and few whites or Hispanics (in private) sympathize with the shooting “victim”.

I also think Zimmerman is going to jail, though I hope he doesn’t if it was justified.

I don’t know enough about it to have an opinion at this point.


37 posted on 03/24/2012 5:19:09 AM PDT by kearnyirish2
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To: Jimmy Valentine's brother
Trayvon was in a gated community,

That's what we've been told but now I'm not so sure. We've also been told that it was an "upscale gated community" but from the film reports I've seen of that place, it is far from upscale......middle income at best.

38 posted on 03/24/2012 5:21:04 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (No matter what you post here, someone's going to get pissed off......)
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To: biggredd1
100 million armed Americans... 4.5 billion rounds of ammo sold to civilians in the past three years... CCW permits at all time high... many States have passed Castle Doctrine laws... they will screw up bigtime if the left tries to bring Anarchy and collapse to the Republic. WE THE PEOPLE... never forget that for one second... and while you are at it... our most important tenant... “UNDER GOD”!

LLS

39 posted on 03/24/2012 5:22:33 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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To: SueRae

It’s Comrade Omuslim’s “Communist Spring”....


40 posted on 03/24/2012 5:22:37 AM PDT by newfreep (Breitbart sent me...)
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