Posted on 05/24/2012 5:14:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman made statements to police that help establish his guilt in the second-degree murder case against him for killing unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, prosecutors said in a court filing on Thursday.
The claim came in a motion by prosecutors to keep some of Zimmerman's statements under seal pending his trial in a case that triggered civil rights protests across the United States, while sparking widespread debate over guns, self-defense laws and U.S. race relations.
"Defendant (Zimmerman) has provided law enforcement with numerous statements, some of which are contradictory, and are inconsistent with the physical evidence and statements of witnesses," the prosecutors said in their court filing.
They said the statements by Zimmerman were admissible in court and "in conjunction with other statements and evidence help to establish defendant's guilt in this case."
The court filing offered no details about the statements Zimmerman made to police or other law enforcement officials. It said Florida's public records law had no provision requiring "the disclosure of a confession" of a defendant....
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The above statement was made on March 13, which was after the case went national. Is that of any significance?
I think that contributed to my obvious error here.
Serino’s probable cause statement was leaked after the Sanford Police completely shut down press access to their evidence.
Then, Serino made the statement to the Orlando Sentinel, which I quoted in my earlier comment.
A lot of us, including me, thought Serino was specifically contradicting the reports in the MSM.
I plead guilty to arriving at the wrong conclusion.
Is there any record of Serino recommending manslaughter charges prior to his March 13 statement? If there is not, then I would be suspicious because it was after Crump et al got involved.
At one point in that same time period Serino either stated or wrote that the whole incident could have been avoided if Zimmerman had stayed in his truck.
That caused an explosion of outrage here at Free Republic.
A lot of us thought Serino was “walking back” that statement with his quote in the Sentinel.
But.....
The MSM had it right.
And I had it wrong.
I see Conscience already replied. Sorry for the redundant follow-up.
Big time error on my part.
I'm the first guy to grab the MSM’s throat when they screw up.
My turn to eat crow.
the question was (rephrased): does a racist have the right to defend himself against someone of a different color?
Like I said, Dershowitz said the man is not guilty....spin all you want, the liberal heads are exploding....
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