“The judge asked her about the web site and she said she didn’t know how much money had been contributed. When asked who would know she said her brother. For THIS they are charging her with perjury???? WTF.”
But according to the arrest warrant, she had transferred $74K from that fund just the day before the hearing. So unless the affidavit in support of that warrant was a flagrant lie, the judge merely concluded that it was improbable she had forgotten this amount within 24 hours of the transfer. Thus, she lied about not knowing the amount. Remember that Zimmerman’s own lawyer asked for a new bond hearing conceding/acknowledging his client had misled the court about what he knew about the amount of those funds.
I think the judge has not treated Zimmerman particularly fairly, but in this instance, put the shoe on the other foot. Imagine Trayvon Martin killed Zimmerman and had a wife who said the identical thing under the identical circumstances. If the judge ignored such a flagrant lie in a bond hearing and people became aware of this, we’d all be screaming up and down about what a miscarriage of justice it is for the judge to ignore such flagrant evidence of lying by not having her arrested for perjury etc. Perjury is deeply offensive: hence the reason we all thought Bill Clinton deserved to be impeached and removed from office. Let’s apply that standard consistently.
Q ... how much money is in that website right now?
A Currently, I do not know
Shellie may have transferred funds from the account the day before but could not possibly know "how much money" was "in that website right now". Donations were rolling in as they spoke.
Shellie did not "willfully subscribe(s) as true any material matter which (s)he (did) not believe to be true" and, therefore, did not commit perjury. The prosecutor knows that, but that didn't stop her from arresting Shellie.
Referring, when not under oath to $100 as shorthand for $100,000, etc., does not infer that the court testimony was perjurious, nor does it affect credibility. I have had business conversations where I refer to amounts like "a hundred", as shorthand for $100,00.
You're playing the Race Card on FReepers? Really?
Minor point of clarity, Corey brought the charges not the judge.