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.
Hit ‘em with the old standby cliche “innocent until proven guilty”. That always wins arguments!
Google 'police burglar tools'
I hope O’Mara’s packing.
something like 8 break ins in a few months and since the shooting not one
And if a police officer asked you if the screwdriver you had with you was yours, would you say: "It isn't mine! A friend I can't tell you about told me to keep it for him. This is not my screwdriver!"
A screwdriver you readily say is yours is just a screwdriver.
A screwdriver whose ownership and provenance you hotly dispute is a screwdriver that was used for a nonstandard purpose.
Good for him about damn time people learn about this thug some have turned into a saint
Do you stick them in your pocket when wobbling about high as a kite, casing joints in the rain and fog?
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Red Steel ~:” I also read that there was a burglar tool, a slim jim, found in the bushes where Martin was hiding.”
I read an account that said the ‘slim jim’ was in found in an area nearby , later , but not necessarily in the bushes where Martin was hiding.
That same account said that police had NOT processed it for fingerprints.
I think it was referred to as “a slim jim like object’.
bm
Rush was just talking about the Miami school situation and that Martin was suspended instead of arrested..
bump
FReeper Highest Authority wrote: The Ariona Watermelon Tea and skittles that Trayvon bought at the convenience store right before he encountered Zimmerman is two parts of a Southern ghetto high called “DANK” or “LEAN”....and Purple Drank.
All he needed to complete the mix was Robitussin ---a common cough syrup--but so abused that one needs to present a driver's license to buy it in some areas.
So when his daddy would not give "the child" the 20 bucks for a coupla joints---he decided to get high w/ this formula.
Amazing how "the child" knew this.
Street-wise Trayvon has been know to talk about "purple drank" both on social media and in school.
He was suspended not only for assaulting his bus driver but also for his drug use.
Side effects of the usage of "lean" includes aggressive behavior.....helps to understand why this rabid "child" attacked his bus driver and WAITED FOUR FULL MINUTES TO attack George Zimmerman.
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Trayvon's record will have no effect on the civil rights case (/snix).
SOURCE http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2120504/Trayvon-Martin-case-He-suspended-times-caught-burglary-tool.html
Suspended from school three times:
<><> •He was on suspension when he was shot in February, after officials caught him with a 'marijuana pipe' and a baggie with drug residue
<><> •Trayvon was kicked out of school in October for graffiti after he was allegedly caught with a 'burglary tool' and a bag full of women's jewelry
<><> •Officials also suspended him once for skipping school and tardiness
The buzz is his brother tweeted that he attacked the bus driver.
(ping to #28 !!)
FYI:
(Hot links are embeded in this article at the site):
How a Miami School Crime Cover-Up Policy Led to Trayvon Martin’s Death
http://spectator.org/blog/2013/07/15/trayvon-crime-school-miami
By Robert Stacy McCain on 7.15.13 @ 1:05AM
The February 2012 shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martion might never have happened if school officials in Miami-Dade County had not instituted an unofficial policy of treating crimes as school disciplinary infractions. Revelations that emerged from an internal affairs investigationexplain why Martin was not arrested when caught at school with stolen jewelry in October 2011 or with marijuana in February 2012. Instead, the teenager was suspended from school, the last time just days before he was shot dead by George Zimmerman.
Trayvon Martin was not from Sanford, the town north of Orlando where he was shot in 2012 and where a jury acquitted Zimmerman of murder charges Saturday. Martin was from Miami Gardens, more than 200 miles away, and had come to Sanford to stay with his father’s girlfriend Brandy Green at her home in the townhouse community where Zimmerman was in charge of the neighborhood watch. Trayvon was staying with Green after he had been suspended for the second time in six months from Krop High School in Miami-Dade County, where both his father, Tracy Martin, and mother, Sybrina Fulton, lived.
Both of Trayvon’s suspensions during his junior year at Krop High involved crimes that could have led to his prosecution as a juvenile offender. However, Chief Charles Hurley of the Miami-Dade School Police Department (MDSPD) in 2010 had implemented a policy that reduced the number of criiminal reports, manipulating statistics to create the appearance of a reduction in crime within the school system. Less than two weeks before Martin’s death, the school system commended Chief Hurley for “decreasing school-related juvenile delinquency by an impressive 60 percent for the last six months of 2011.” What was actually happening was that crimes were not being reported as crimes, but instead treated as disciplinary infractions.
In October 2011, after a video surveillance camera caught Martin writing graffiti on a door, MDSPD Office Darryl Dunn searched Martin’s backpack, looking for the marker he had used. Officer Dunn found 12 pieces of women’s jewelry and a man’s watch, along with a flathead screwdriver the officer described as a “burglary tool.”The jewelry and watch, which Martin claimed he had gotten from a friend he refused to name, matched a description of items stolen during the October 2011 burglary of a house on 204th Terrace, about a half-mile from the school. However, because of Chief Hurley’s policy “to lower the arrest rates,” as one MDSPD sergeant said in an internal investigation, the stolen jewerly was instead listed as“found property” and was never reported to Miami-Dade Police who were investigating the burglary. Similarly, in February 2012 when an MDSPD officer caught Martin with a small plastic bag containing marijuana residue, as well as a marijuana pipe, this was not treated as a crime, and instead Martin was suspended from school.
Either of those incidents could have put Trayvon Martin into the custody of the juvenile justice system. However, because of Chief Hurley’s attempt to reduce the school crime statistics according to sworn testimony, officers were “basically told to lie and falsify” reports Martin was never arrested. And if he had been arrested, he might never have been in Sanford the night of his fatal encounter with Zimmerman.
In fact, the reason Zimmerman was patrolling the townhouse community the night of the February 2012 shooting was that there had been a rash of burglaries in the neighborhood, although there was no indication that Trayvon Martin was involved in any of those crimes.
As for Chief Hurley’s policy, it was the controvery over Martin’s death that accidentally exposed it. In March 2012, theMiami Herald reported on Martin’s troubled history of disciplinary incidents at Krop High. Chief Hurley then launched the internal affairs investigation in an attempt to find out who had provided information to the reporter. During the course of that investigation, MDSPD officers and supervisors described Chief Hurley’s policy of not reporting crimes by students. Chief Hurley was subsequently accused of sexually harassing two female subordinates. He resigned in February, about a year after Trayvon Martin’s death.
I read that the jewelry items matched the description of stolen items from the victim in the gated community.
Thanks for the headsup.
Do you know whether the contents of St. Skittle’s pockets were ever listed at any time during the investigation?
and that was Frank Taffe's residence that had been burglarized two weeks earlier where he first spotted him and where he was looking a window when he saw GZ looking at him and calling on his cell.
I'd bet the 3 stooges were the ones who burglarized his residence and dropped Martin off there to finish his shopping.
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