[MinuteGal]

CAPSULE COMMENTS:

The Judge is honest, smart and strong. The smoke, mirrors and bullshot of the Prosecutor didn't fly with him at all.

Defense attorney, Mark O'Mara, was superb. If the case goes to trial, he'll make mincemeat out of the shifty, stuttering, evasive lead investigators who work out of the office of Madame Corey DeFarge, DA.

O'Mara got the bail he wanted. The Prosecutor overreached with a million, O'Mara deliberately went low-ball as he could with 15,000....and the judge went with 150 thousand....which is probably what the defense was hoping for in the first place. Good strategery, indeed.

I was appalled to see Mr. Zimmerman forced to demeanly shuffle in shackles, chain around the waist and feet chained also. Where was the iron ball and the black and white-striped convict jumpsuit? And does anyone remember the double-murderer OJ being in full shackles during his trial? If he was, please set me straight.

However, all in all, a good day for George Zimmerman....and Lady Justice.

Leni

[txrangerette]

Just one point...this wasn’t a trial.

If this nothing case ever gets to trial, Zimmerman will not be in shackles.

I’m presuming anyone there accused of murder would have been treated as Zimmerman was at his hearing.

We all know the charge is absurd. But it is the operative charge.

Anyone else care to weigh in on this point?

[sheikdetailfeather]

PER JAMIE HOLMES, WFTV "WE DID HEAR EVIDENCE THAT WE HAD NOT HEARD PRIOR TO THIS INCLUDING TRAYVON MARTIN ALLEGEDLY CIRCLING ZIMMERMANS CAR AT THE TIME AND OBVIOUSLY, THAT WILL COME UP IN TRIAL AND COME UP IN THE COURSE OF THIS AS TO WHETHER OR NOT MARTIN WAS SOMEWHAT AGITATING OR THE AGGRESOR IN THIS CASE."

[doug from upland]

No matter what they say, this prosecution was a political decision to keep Sanford from being burned to the ground.