Posted on 07/15/2013 10:31:36 AM PDT by kristinn
Mark O'Mara, lead defense attorney for George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin shooting case is speaking freely about Martin's criminal background now that his client has been acquitted.
Appearing on CNN's Headline News channel Monday morning, O'Mara was asked if Zimmerman has regrets over targeting a boy walking home without any ill intent.
O'Mara mentioned that Martin was under the influence of marijuana and that he was spotted near a home that had recently been burglarized.
O'Mara went on to say that Martin had recently been "caught with the fruits of a burglary." A reference to the watch, jewelry and burglary tool found in Martin's backpack by school authorities several months before.
With that comment, O'Mara is serving notice to those who will pursue Zimmerman in civil court that the barriers to evidence in the criminal case of Martin's recent troubled history before his death will not pertain in civil court.
Details on stolen jewelry here.
Go MOM, Go~~!!! Now MOM needs to talk about how skittles and Arizona fruit drink + cough syrup makes up a big ol batch of Purple Drank.
Do that, and tie it into his text messages that they weren’t allowed to use.
Also GZ’s brother, who if you haven’t seen him, is very articulate mentioned “ lean “ and other things with Piers Morgan
“”We have to grow from this,” Zimmerman, Jr. told Piers Morgan.
“I want to know what make people angry enough to attack someone the way Trayvon Martin did. I want to know if it’s true, and I don’t know if it’s true, that Trayvon Martin was looking to procure firearms, was growing marijuana plants or was making lean or whatever he was doing.”
That wasn’t a reporter. It was the blogger at The Last Refuge. Sundance I believe.
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Yeppers, you are correct (http://theconservativetreehouse.com) The media doesn’t report or investigate, it sure wasn’t them. The MSM only pushes agendas and ideology.
Last I heard, the items he was caught with were suspicious, but burglary or receiving stolen goods had not been proven....Last I heard, the items were called “found items” in order to lower the crime rates in St. Skittles’ school by the School Police Person, under orders by his supervisor. They were put in the police recovered locker and not reported to the burglary investigator until a journalist told the investigator.
Yeap, that is what I read....cudos to them.
Don’t live in Floriduh. So I can’t answer.
All this is true and most came from Trayvon himself. He was also a small time dealer.
I hope the Blogger who contacted the Police also notified the B&E victims.
There's more than enough we can prove without needing to add speculation based on theories that don't really fit the evidence very well. A big, flat-bladed screwdriver is a tool you'd choose for breaking into houses. A slim-jim is not.
Beg your pardon but a slim most certainly is ,as also screw drivers and lawn mower blades.
But I will defer to your apparent expertise.
They assumed the jury needed to know Martin paid for his goodies, just in case the mostly white jury was racist.
You know, Martin paid for that stuff, he had money...so why would he be casing places and appear suspicious? Why it was because Zimmerman was racist, of course.
I just figured the prosecution was/is racist. That’s how I usually see the people wanting to push race/racism all the time.
Sort of along the lines of the old childhood saying:
I’m rubber, you’re glue, whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you.
And a hearty neener neener for good measure! :p
I have experience using one to open car doors, and as far as I know that's what they're designed for. I've never seen a house door or window that has a lock or latch mechanism that would require that kind of tool. I can see that you could possibly use one on a spring-loaded, or flip latch, but a simple credit card or pocket knife would work much better, and having those in your posession doesn't arouse suspicion. It makes no sense to me.
I didn’t hear that either. Was that in testimony? If so, who testified to that? Seems that the 7-11 clerk would have been the one to testify to that, and I didn’t see him testify.
Ya, I don’t think a manufacturer will label the dual use of their product as a burglary tool... just like a baseball bat wouldn’t be listed as a dual use item for bludgeoning.
I regularly investigate these crimes and could give you a whole plethora of tools regularly use. Slim jims work great on those little chain things.
Context is everything. I had access to my dad's screwdrivers while in high school, but never had an excuse to take one to school along with a pile of women's jewelry.
The kid was a thief, I've no reasonable doubt on that.
I hadn't considered that. Chalk that up to my lack of criminal experience.
To me to let them know that their verdict was correct , and that they would probably have been really sorry if they fell for the “ child/heart” prosecution line
Ditto! That ran through my mind too. I can imagine after hearing what was not ALLOWED by this Judge made them doubly glad that the verdict was NOT GUILTY.
“O’Mara is serving notice to those who will pursue Zimmerman in civil court that the barriers to evidence in the criminal case of Martin’s recent troubled history before his death will not pertain in civil court.”
Shots across the bows of many a racist.
Go to the conservative treehouse site and you can read all about it. There is alot that was not allowed in trial. I believe someone posted a link here.
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