Posted on 07/19/2013 8:29:30 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
George Zimmerman was acquitted of killing Trayvon Martin, a New Orleans attorney complained to me Monday, because the prosecution didn't want to win a conviction. The attorney, who has worked at Tulane and Broad as an assistant district attorney and as a defense lawyer, called me to say that he's handled hundreds of homicide cases over his career and that he's never seen prosecutors who want to win make the series of missteps that the Florida prosecutors made. So he's convinced they lost on purpose. He offered six reasons for his belief that the state threw the case.
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Like Mark Furhman said. The prosecution had no evidence to work with so they used emotion to try to win. The left who listened to Nancy Grace believed it was a slam dunk so they felt the prosecution was not trying. That is one of the many reasons they cannot accept the verdict.
Ahh, how do I say this in a respectful and socially acceptable manner?
Horseshit!!!
The prosecutor in this case was, by all appearances, a race-baiting harpy. She is as near as I can tell Mike Nifong’s soulmate, his female mirror image and moral echo.
For starters, the prosecution in this case apparently cared little for the actual facts and cared far more about the political capital involved in the hunt for the Great White (i.e. hispanic quadroon) Defendant, to take a bit of artistic license with Thomas Wolfe’s ideas. The prosecution took a blatantly obvious case of self defense and absurdly over-charged the defendant with second-degree murder. Damn the evidence! Full speed ahead!
It doesn’t take a paralegal or even an undergrad merely interested in criminal law to tell you that the elements of second-degree murder simply weren’t there, and that it’d be a stretch of the imagination to claim manslaughter even. But the prosecution was dismissive of facts and more interested in radical headlines and was frighteningly bewitched by the deplorable racial invective being hurled about by both the media and career black racists.
What’s worse, according to the fired IT professional (another brilliant move by Ms. Corey, by the way), the prosecution withheld and even destroyed potentially exculpatory evidence. Who the hell does this harpy, I mean woman, think she is? You do NOT withhold or DESTROY potentially exculpatory evidence, you further don’t EFFING FIRE the people who testify about your gross abuse of office!
The prosecution didn’t try to lose this case, the prosecution never had a case to begin with and didn’t care. A volatile combination of naivete, liberal self-righteous scorn, stupidity and incompetence led Angela Corey to treat an obvious case of justifiable homicide as second-degree murder.
If Ms. Corey had the slightest lick of common sense, or the least quantum fraction of decency possibly attributable to an attorney of any stripe, she would have been able to scrape together enough animal-intelligence necessary to realize that a massive media show-trial centered on a farcical claim of second-degree murder would blow up in her damned face and leave her office looking about as respectable as a Tijuana Whorehouse Donkey Show.
But no. That was apparently too much to expect from Ms. Corey. She actually doubled down on her outright stupidity and malfeasance b y engaging in a judicial witch hunt liberally peppered with blatant professional misconduct and apparent evidence tampering.
Threw the case? No sir! Such an accusation would imply that the pitcher could throw, or had a ball, to begin with. This idiotic, bitter, foul-spirited, venomous, sorry excuse for a human being didn’t throw the case. Throwing the case doesn’t require making an ass of yourself in public, nor does it require libel, slander, prosecutorial misconduct, wrongful dismissal, and the invitation for both disbarment and frankly epic payouts during civil litigation for the above-mentioned offenses.
Do not attribute to conspiracy that which can easily be explained as incompetence coupled with a liberal dash of mind-numbing stupidity.
Moreover, it was possible to elicit the same information by asking the question in a different way, which is precisely what O’Mara did the next morning right after the jury had been admonished to ignore the previous reply. I was watching the prosecution desk at that instant, and they all looked like they were still basking in the glow of their “great victory”.
Agreed.
Although, I find it hard to attribute any level of naivete to Ms. Corey.
Nor, apparently, the fact that there was a Crump related P.R. firm actively involved from the third day.
Of course they tried to get a conviction. Problem was, they had no case... mainly because Zimmerman simply didn’t commit any crime.
I agree wholeheartedly with your assessment. Angela Corey wanted a conviction so bad that after the trial she doubled down and in a press conference referred to Zimmerman as a murderer thereby subjecting herself to personal liability for libel per se.
I have never in my life witnessed a prosecution team more bent on a conviction before. They lied, cheated and stole. They risked their own law licences by withholding exculpatory evidence in a felony murder case.
It was despicable. There is simply no way to attribute their failure to convict on anything other than the fact that they had no substantial evidence that a crime had been committed.
Now Obama and Holder are doubling down. It is clear to me that both of them want to stoke the fires of racial tension.
We live in the least racist country on Earth, but Obama wants the world to think that we are the most racist nation on earth. Obama hates America. Most of all he hates Americans. He hates you. He hates me. He hates mom, baseball and Apple pie. He is a narcissistic sociopath hell bent on transforming this nation into his own image.
You make a valid point. This wasn’t Angie’s first rodeo; she’s used to throwing her weight around and getting her way. She didn’t rise to her current position without a good bit of mudslinging, backbiting, and crotch-kicking.
In this case though, I don’t think she really grasped that she was competing in a new weight division.
I have often been struck by sight of district attorneys, usually perfectly capable within their normal sphere of operation, utterly floundering when confronted with their first “media trial”.
It seems to me as if some prosecutors stand in front of the cameras like the proverbial deer-in-the-headlights, wondering why the tactics that usually work to win a plea bargain from the frequent fliers in the criminal justice system don’t seem to be gaining any real traction in a real, flesh and blood trial.
Bluffing a defendant, overstating your case, overcharging an obvious criminal with the intent of leaving yourself a bit of haggling room for a plea to a charge only half as bad as the actual offense — these are valid tactics, really the daily bread and butter for the average DA. Hell, our criminal justice system would probably grind to a screeching halt if 90%+ of our cases didn’t follow this script; we simply can’t afford to give every scumbag a real jury trial.
But the playbook is necessarily a little different for the media trial. What’s more, the rules are decidedly different for a media witch hunt trial. Bluff, bluster, and bullying don’t carry you nearly as far when you have a real jury to convince and an actual defense attorney asking you to actually PROVE your charges. To say nothing of the cameras, the media, and the rest of the nation looking over your shoulder.
I can’t help but think that dear little Angie here didn’t quite “Get” that.
I know.
“Did George Zimmerman’s prosecutors try to get him off?”
Yuh think?
The question answers itself...
They didn’t THROW the case.....they HAD NO CASE to THROW!!
:)
Seemed pretty obvious to me. One theory is they were going through the motions of “prosecuting” to save their own sorry behinds from being fired. They certainly can’t be that stupid to think they actually did a good job...But, then again.
Seemed pretty obvious to me. One theory is they were going through the motions of “prosecuting” to save their own sorry behinds from being fired. They certainly can’t be that stupid to think they actually did a good job...But, then again.
Dear Author, another possibility — and you might take it seriously — is that the prosecutors had a bad case with the evidence all in favor of the defendant.
That evidence is why ANY legal effort against Zimmerman will meet the same fate. Zimmerman will prevail.
He would have been an improvement.
Well, he did get a happy ending... sorta...
Maybe “Al Kuyda” would work too.
err....Has it ever occurred to you that the whole purpose of our legal justice system is not well served by our prosecutors and LEOs using false intimidation tactics, terrorist threats and plea bargainings to resolve crimes?
Angela Corey needs to be thoroughly investigated, and I do believe she would eventually be charged with malicious prosecutorial malfeasance.
If found guilty, she needs to spend a long, long time in jail.
Unlike North Carolina's NiFong, who spent a single day in jail for all the hell he put several students of Duke University (falsely accused as rapists) through, largely in order to be re-elected in a majority minority district.
This is our justice system?
It's not working. Ask George Zimmerman. I have to wonder if I will be next in line to be persecuted under color of law for political reasons.
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