Posted on 04/05/2013 10:03:45 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Edited on 04/05/2013 10:16:00 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
SANFORD - Trayvon Martin's parents have settled a wrongful death claim for an amount believed to be more than $1 million against the homeowners association of the Sanford subdivision where their teenage son was killed.
Their attorney, Benjamin Crump, filed that paperwork at the Seminole County Courthouse, a portion of which was made public today.
(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...
Heh. That's me. I use the same handle all over the 'tubes.
-- Wouldn't a proffer from O'Mara that he does not intend to represent Zimmerman in any such civil suit trump that Crump proffer? --
I think proffers and counter-proffers just make things messy. O'Mara's best argument is the one the court did not address, and that is the point that Crump waived privilege as to the surfacing of Witness 8. At rock bottom, although he dare not say it (yet), the foundation for deposing Crump is that her testimony is the product of being coached by Crump. I think there is another dynamic at play, and that is the discrediting and perhaps sanctioning of Crump, as a lawyer. What better way to tamp down public sentiment, than to cut off people who lie in order to inflame passions.
Anyway, even assuming that Crump is opposing counsel (put him in Bernardo or Corey's shoes, if you want), that still does not get him off the hook as far as giving fact testimony. Obviously, he's not the prosecutor, so the court doesn't have the ugly situation of opposing lawyers in the instant case deposing one another. But even if it did, what O'Mara is seeking is not "privileged" as work product or as legal strategy.
Saying “everyone plays” the legal system is a blanket statement that is not true....however..and to remain on topic....Martin’s parents filed lawsuits on the back of their dead son in order for monetary gain and notoriety, knowing from the get go they lied....and continued to lie about what happened and about who their son was.
I have zero sympathy for these parents.
Try spellcheck.
Petty? Yes. But considering your post to me, it is appropriate.
My original points remain the same.
A few comments were racial and I commented on them. The real and bigger problems remain with the overall justice system.
Glad to see that the racial stereotypes have abated.
You seem to be saying that his parents are glad he’s dead. I will assume you have never lost a child. Perhaps you know these folks, personally?
I assumed that everyone knew that when attorneys smell a possible pay day, they come running to help.
You seem to be saying that his parents are glad he’s dead. I will assume you have never lost a child. Perhaps you know these folks, personally?
I assumed that everyone knew that when attorneys smell a possible pay day, they come running to help.
“Petty? Yes....”
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I’m certainly glad you recognize your own pettiness and need to attack others merely for the sake of making an attack.
My admonition (”Lighten up Francis!”) to you still stands. I just wish you could control (if only a little) your apparent need to see racism in everything and your need to attack your fellow FReepers.
“maintaining an unsafe neighborhood watch environment.”
That is a definite award winner — it works no matter which way you turn it.
I was thinking something mundane: “The HOA failed to provide effective training and supervision”. They should have taught him gems like, don’t pursue a presumed felon by yourself at night with no one watching your back.
It’s all about the money and notoriety......on the back of their son’s death....any morning is their personal business. Nobody’s addressing that...it’s their actions right from the very beginning that is more than objectional...they lied and they knew it...,what we saw and heard was all for show and what could be gained by their performance.
There own family member was responsible for contacting the attorney to bring suit...nobody went after them.
Yup. Ever read the book, “The Testament”? Awesome read.
No I have not, have to check it out.
Would have been "Post of the Month", except that you left out "He was an aspiring rapper".
Bill, you are hopelessly confused. It is I who am the aspiring rapper.
Stop that sort of talk, tight now, Uncle C! As Trayvon hisself often said before winding up on the wrong (a tough call with this puppy) end of a Keltec,
If you do you will have to clean it up yourself.
I attack racist comments and will continue to do so. They demean the cause you no doubt claim to be a part of. The fact that you don’t understand that is sad.
Not all self-proclaimed conservatives are as they claim. The ones who use part of the conservative agenda as their own while tossing in their own racism are the same as phony liberals.
Not saying you are one of them but there is nothing wrong about pointing out those among your “own” who exhibit bad traits.
The goal is to win, not tolerate idiots who bring the rest of us down.
“....not tolerate idiots who bring the rest of us down.”
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sakic, I do believe that you need no assistance (whether from idiots or not) in bringing yourself down—even if you were never very “high” to begin with.
You do share with the progressive “comrades” the trait of casting aspersions on conservatives and tarring them with charges of racism—whether deserved or not. Your goal may be “to win”, but the question is to win what and for whom?
You state that it is a “fact” and sad that I lack understanding. You don’t know me and you certainly have ZERO knowledge of my degree of “understanding”. You are deluding yourself if you think you have ANY knowledge of what I “understand”.
If you don’t understand that there have been some racist comments in this thread I know that you don’t understand all that much.
Take a look at your own shrill rhetoric. It’s taken straight from the pages of the Frankfurt School and other far-left enforcers of political correctness. The laughable part of it is that yesterday’s politically correct far Left claim to speak for conservatism.
Again, it is not shrill rhetoric to tell the truth. The shrill rhetoric in this thread has come from the ostriches who can’t stomach truth and feel a need to defend people because they agree with them on one thing.
The notion that someone you agree with on a topic is someone you must defend at all times is an attitude of fear, to me.
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