Posted on 07/04/2013 12:58:32 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The attorneys monitoring the George Zimmerman trial differ on the final outcome. One believes there could be ‘a powder keg going off’ if the jury delivers a not guilty verdict.
One of the attorneys for the parents of Trayvon Martin told the Florida Courier this week that he believes George Zimmerman will be found guilty.
Daryl Parks, who shares a law firm in Tallahassee with Benjamin Crump, also has been at the Zimmerman trial in Sanford since jury selection began two weeks ago.
“He (Zimmerman) was following Trayvon. Was the amount of force justified? Prosecutors are proving it wasn’t justified,” Parks noted.
On Feb. 26, 2012, Zimmerman fatally shot 17-year-old Martin in a gated community in Sanford. Zimmerman is claiming self-defense in the shooting.
Parks said he was not upset that the judge ruled out letting experts testify during the trial over whether or not the voice on a 911 call was Martin yelling for help.
“The layperson can identify the voice better,” he remarked.
Response to lack of protests
Martin’s mother Sybrina Fulton was scheduled to take the stand as the Florida Courier was going to press to validate that it was her son’s voice asking for help on the 911 call.
“The world is watching this case. They are listening,” Parks said when he was asked by the Courier if he was upset that Sanford residents and others have not been protesting outside the courthouse since the beginning of the trial.
“We live in a different age,” Parks added, noting that the TV ratings for the trial have been phenomenal with millions of people watching it every day.
Seminole County NAACP President Turner Clayton Jr. was quoted last week, saying that the “so-called demonstration area” that has been designated you will not see us protesting in that particular area cause no one tells us where to go, how long to stay, what to do, and what to say.”
‘We are crusaders’
Regardless of what happens during the criminal trial, Parks said they will be going after Zimmerman in civil court for monetary damages.
They are waiting for the results of the Department of Justice investigation into whether Martin’s rights were violated.
Daryl Parks
Parks said the Martin case is just one of many incidents where Blacks have been killed unjustly and he said their work for the voiceless will continue.
“We are crusaders. There are all kinds of battles going on,” he concluded.
Parks also told the Courier: “Zimmerman said this guy threw the first punch.
Zimmerman has admitted he was on top. Was Zimmerman in fear of Trayvon? He was following him in the dark.’’ Parks added that he believes Zimmerman may have been overzealous and attempted to hold Martin until the police arrived.
Another point of view
Attorney Ted Williams, who is based out of Washington, D.C and is a legal analyst for the Fox News show “On the Record with Greta Van Susteren,” was in Sanford this week to monitor the trial. Unlike Parks, he is apprehensive Zimmerman will be found guilty.
Considering what the prosecutors have presented and the witnesses they have called, Williams said, “every witness the prosecutor has put and evidence presented helps the defense.”
“I’m very concerned the defense is not going to put on a case,” he declared, speaking to the Florida Courier on Monday.
Williams said what must be proven is that Zimmerman was the aggressor.
Williams added that if the prosecutors can prove Zimmerman approached Martin and touched him in any way, “if there was any physical contact by Zimmerman, he could be seen as the aggressor and self-defense cannot be used.”
Williams noted, “I do believe there could be a powder keg going off (if there is a not guilty verdict.’’
Zimmerman’s profane words
Inside the courtroom this week, jurors got to hear Zimmerman tell his side — through phone calls and video.
In a phone call with a police dispatcher minutes before he shot Martin, Zimmerman said offhandedly “those (expletive) punks.’’
On Tuesday, that phrase became one of the most important of the trial so far.
Chris Serino, the Sanford police detective who led the homicide investigation, told jurors that when Zimmerman said it, that showed the Neighborhood Watch volunteer had “ill will” toward Trayvon.
Up to that point — although they had put on more than six days of testimony — prosecutors had failed to show one of the key elements they must prove to convict Zimmerman of second-degree murder: that the defendant acted with a depraved mind, hatred, malice, evil intent or ill will toward the high school junior from Miami Gardens.
Assistant State Attorney Bernie de la Rionda suggested that when Zimmerman called Trayvon a “punk,” he was profiling the teen as a criminal.
Zimmerman didn’t say a word in court Monday but jurors spent much of the day hearing from him as prosecutors set about trying to catch him in a what Assistant State Attorney John Guy called a “tangled web of lies.”
“The truth about George Zimmerman is going to come directly from his mouth and from the lies that he told,” Guy had told jurors in his opening statement.
The struggle
On Monday, prosecutors played four statements Zimmerman gave to police — one a video-recorded walk-through the day after the shooting.
In each, Zimmerman gave the same general story but some details changed, especially about what Martin said and what happened as they struggled on the ground.
In each, Zimmerman consistently maintained that he found Trayvon suspicious because although it was raining that night, Feb. 26, 2012, the Miami Gardens teen was standing in the yard of a Zimmerman friend whose home had been burglarized.
Zimmerman called police then followed Trayvon on foot, he said. He lost him so Zimmerman turned back toward his truck and was leaving, then the two came face to face.
There was a short exchange of words, Zimmerman said, then Trayvon punched him in the nose, knocking him to the ground. The teen then got on top of Zimmerman and began hitting him and slamming his head against the sidewalk, he said.
Accounts varied
In a statement he wrote for police that night, Zimmerman added, “My head felt like it was going to explode.”
But his accounts varied. He originally told police he was not following Zimmerman – that he got out of his truck because he was trying to find a street sign to pass along better location information.
But in an interview three days later, Zimmerman said something different and was challenged: “I wasn’t following. I was just going in the same direction.”
they also want to make it a crime to follow what one may consider a suspicious person.
What! But The Regime tells us to watch & report suspicious characters.
Of course, given his heritage, he might just move to Peru and give the one-finger salute to the United States of America and its civil courts.
They will lose.
I hope it costs them a lot of money to find that out.
Okay Parks, then start speaking about all the black on black murders in Chicago, Detroit, Philly, New York, Los Angeles, et al that happens every day. What? Got nothing to say about those hundreds of murders by blacks that happen every year? Didn't think so. You're a hypocritical POS, like all you race-baiters. You're a racist punk and will always be known as such.
Another threat that if “they” don’t get the “right” verdict violence will occur.
Really? How in the hell did you get through law school and get accredited? Are you on the same planet as me? The prosecution has done nothing but make the case for the defense. Now it's the defense turn. When GZ is aquitted, hope your firm is the bulls eye of the rioters. You might actually learn some reality.
If George is found innocent, they won’t see a dime.
Considering the amount of sympathy he has from a large number of Americans, I think he could just go the Tawana Brawley route. If they manage to get a civil judgement, he should just change his name, move out of state, and with help from some sympathetic allies, start a new life. Let these moneygrubbers try to track him down for the next couple decades in a vain attempt to collect their blood money.
Let ‘em. I don’t think OJ’s paid a dime.
LOL!
Does Zimmerman have "deep pockets"?
Ahem... "Affirmative action", maybe?
I don’t know how they expect to get a big payday from Zimmerman. It’s not like his family has a lot of dough to cough up.
“If Zimmerman was the aggressor, self-defense is ruled out.” - Not so. If Zimmerman was the aggressor, and did not reclaim his innocence, then he would have an affirmative obligation to retreat if this was reasonably possible rather than defend himself with deadly force. As it is, the evidence that Zimmerman was the aggressor is weak, mostly that of a 19-year old ear-witness who lies easily. And, the evidence that Zimmerman had no reasonable avenue of retreat is overwhelming; namely, the eye-witness who saw Trayvon on top pummeling Zimmerman, corroborated to various extents by other residents, and by Zimmerman’s injuries. Since the evidence that there was no reasonable avenue of retreat means it doesn’t matter who was the aggressor.
They’ll go after the company he worked for, the cities and counties involved, insurance companies, the state, the gunmaker, the ammunition company, media who didn’t back them to the hilt, etc., etc.
Mr. Parks looks suspiciously like Rachel Jeantel without the Flintstones wig.
1. Not supervising their child after hours.
2. Not being concerned enough with their minor child to not be aware he is gone until the next morning.
3. Allowing their drugged up child to walk the streets unsupervised.
Since it would be a civil trail, all that evidence against TM that the judge disallowed should be admissible.
GZ should sue for pain and suffering because those two could take care of their troubled son.
My thoughts exactly. And I guarantee way more whites are murdered by blacks than vice versa, yet the media buries those stories. Infuriates me.
Columbia, SC mother of four slaughtered in hate crime
Police say thugs stormed into a kitchen and shot a Kelly Hunnewell. The thugs didn’t steal anything, nor was there anything of value in the kitchen to steal. The perpetrators are three black males. The attack appears to be a random hate crime/thrill killing.
Other recent atrocities in Columbia, South Carolina:
Wheelchair bound man tortured and executed. Girlfriend maimed.
Near fatal hate crime mob attack on Carter Strange
Racially motivated mob attack in downtown
Elderly woman brutally beaten in hate crime
Disabled man beaten in hate crime mob attack
http://topconservativenews.com/2013/07/columbia-sc-mother-of-four-slaughtered-in-hate-crime/
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