Posted on 03/23/2013 8:04:39 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
In Update 22, “The Incredible Exploding Dee Dee,” I suggested that when Dee Dee was deposed by George Zimmerman’s attorney, Mark O’Mara, the information she provided had the potential to be even more harmful to the prosecution and to the members of the Scheme Team. The first part of the deposition was completed on Wednesday, March 20, and additional time was reportedly scheduled for Friday, March 22.
This is, in itself, unusual. A full day is usually more than enough for such matters. That another day is required suggests strongly that far more relevant evidence is being unearthed.
It is likely this information will be destructive not only to the prosecutor’s all but nonexistent case, but to the prosecutors, the Scheme Team–particularly Benjamin Crump–and others involved with them.
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In a February 22, 2013 hearing, O’Mara petitioned the court to order a deposition of Crump. O’Mara sought to discover, among other information, why there were multiple interruptions in the audiotaped interview Crump conducted of Dee Dee on March 19, 2012. That interview, and Crump’s subsequent, hyperbolic statements regarding its content, were instrumental in securing Zimmerman’s eventual arrest.
Crump resisted that deposition, filing a sworn affidavit with the court in which he claimed that any interruptions were entirely innocent and no matters of substance were discussed while the recorder was off.
Apparently partially based on a non-skeptical reading of Crump’s deposition, on March 4, Judge Debra Nelson denied O’Mara’s motion to depose Crump, primarily citing the work product privilege (opposing attorneys are generally not required to submit to depositions, but this privilege is not absolute).
And this is where matters have suddenly become very, very interesting, and may, once again, blow up in the prosecution’s face just as Vesuvius blew up on Pompeii and Herculaneum in 79 AD. And once again, Dee Dee–the gift to the defense that just keeps on giving–is involved.
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Now it seems clear that Mr. Crump has been caught in an obvious lie, a lie under oath–perjury. It is possible that this is only the first. It is further possible that truthful and complete testimony by Mr. Crump would unearth additional lies and the machinations of a racial grievance machine intent not only on convicting George and Shelly Zimmerman regardless of the lack of evidence against them, but on enriching the Scheme Team and its associates. I’ve little doubt that various worthies at the Department of Justice are also deeply involved in this case (the FBI doesn’t conduct investigations just for giggles).
We have only begun to scratch the surface of that particular rock. It will be interesting indeed to see what sort of creatures run for cover when and if it is overturned.
Should Judge Nelson order that Crump be deposed, one can expect two things: he will obfuscate and do his best to avoid answering direct questions. He left himself an out by claiming he remembers nothing, but that’s not likely to be convincing when he is confronted by his own voice coaching Dee Dee. One can, however, expect him to take the 5th.
Oh yes: the more trouble Mr. Crump finds himself in, the more fervently the race card will be played.
As I noted in Update 22, if Dee Dee took the 5th, the consequences for her and for the prosecution would be most unpleasant. It seems she has, instead, opted for disclosure, and if this assumption is accurate, it is Mr. Crump, the Scheme Team, and the prosecution, that have been caught, yet again, in another Dee Dee explosion.
The most delicious irony is: they lit the fuse, and may soon–figuratively–resemble the unfortunate former residents of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
” In a Feb. 20 filing in the case, NBC Universal Media LLC asks a Florida circuit court to stay the case until the conclusion of Zimmerman’s June trial for second-degree murder of Trayvon Martin.”
Thanks for the reminder. ‘Course NBC would hope for a guilty verdict before the Zimmerman case against NBC is heard - but logically, you can be a 2nd degree murderer without being a racist - and NBC doctored the tape to make it “obvious” that Zimmerman “is” a racist. The fact that Zimmerman is a Democrat who has a history of activism against police brutality against blacks cannot be allowed to matter in the case. NBC demoted Zimmerman to “honorary” Republican for its own purposes.
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