Posted on 06/04/2012 11:07:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Trayvon Martin case's Judge Lester has made a judicial misstep about the George Zimmerman bond revocation. And it's a misstep which only serves to increase the racial tensions in the country, unnecessarily.
Judge Lester contends that the Trayvon Martin shooter’s bond had to be revoked because the suspect lied during his first bond hearing about the state of his finances, and that his wife, Shellie, did too, telling the court that the two were practically broke, which led to a $150,000 bail instead of the $1 million sought by the prosecution. But the judge isn’t giving the public all the facts in this case.
The suspect’s attorney, Mark O’Mara, has pointed out that most of the donated money was in an independent trust that neither Zimmerman nor his lawyers could tap. So that means Shellie and George weren’t lying when they said they were broke, because they really didn’t have access to all of the $135,000 monies raised on the accused’s behalf.
And that’s the first misstep by Judge Lester: a rush to judgment in a case that, if no other, called for cooler heads to prevail.
It also shows that Judge Lester is not only insensitive to the racial issues that are boiling over in this case, but that he is for some reason fanning the flames by deviating from what would typically happen in such a case.
In typical situations like this, a judge would not immediately revoke a bond. Instead, he would confer with the counsel and the prosecutor first; taking the opportunity to learn why there appeared to be a miscommunication about assets. He might even have the accused present, in a fact-gathering hearing, before he made a decision over revocation. He definitely wouldn’t make it a media affair, as this judge has done....
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
Who does control the trust?
Now I think it’s controlled by te lawyers, before I don’t recall.
Judge Ito Repeat~0
This has a lot of stink.
I do not understand why Zimmerman would trust anyone or anything to do with the US legal system.
Huge misstatement in the article about the trust fund. The money was not put in there until well after the bond hearing and GZ’s lawyer has already acknowledged the deception by GZ and his wife.
Is this another Judge with 0bama’s _____ in his _____?
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That’s the case now.
It was not the case at the time of the bond hearing.
Acknowledged their deception? Please include a link to where the lawyer acknowledged their deception. Please make sure the quote includes the lawyer actually admitting to deceiving the court.
It wasn’t Zimmerman’s money yet. It was donations to his defense fund not yet dispositioned.
And Bail is not meant to be punitive. It’s meant to mitigate flight risk.
Last week was a bad week for Obama (jobs report, etc.), so something had to be done.
I suppose you can quote some obscure paragraph in some ancient, irrelevant, document, such as the Constitution or something, that makes some sort of reference to that outmoded idea? /sarc
A picture of Judge Lester would be nice. Also is he appointed or elected and if elected is he running this year?
Yeah, it was well after the original bond hearing when this trust fund fund was set up. But the judge has a bad situation at present....I don’t believe he can count that cash in the trust account for the purpose of a bond. And here’s the other new issue....fresh new money coming in....which Zimmerman will say that will go into the trust as well. So even the new money probably can’t be touched by the court in this bond game.
I think the passport issue will be the only thing that can be discussed at length and used to hold Zimmerman in jail until the court case opens.
I think we are seeing the injustice systems way of saying: “It is better to imprison one innocent man than provoke the wrath of the perpetually aggrieved sub-culture, who have made good on their promise of “no conviction, I mean justice, no peace!”
Whatever the outcome, I will NEVER change my carrying armed status nor my daily plan of defense of self and others. Naysayers be damned.
It's like trying to watch the Boston Celtics in the playoffs, with all the TV announcers making it far too plain that they only want to ____ LeBron's ____. For the love of God, get a room, and spare those of us who aren't a swooning pack of protein-deprived homos.
;-\
>>A picture of Judge Lester would be nice.
Go to google.com. Cut and paste (or type) Judge Lester (or just about any variation of his name) in the search box. Click on “images” on the left.
Is there a big stink there about the judge playing solitaire during the trial?
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