Maybe Ms. Fulton knows her son was a wayward teen and actually feels a bit of guilt over the firestorm she has created and the fact that Zimmerman has been railroaded into a murder charge.
My more cynical side however tells me that her Civil attorney has told her that if Zimmerman is convicted of murder then her lawsuit against the home owners association will go down in flames. She NEEDS for this to have been an accident. She needs for this to be negligence. There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow if Jorge is convicted of murder.
I don’t get what you mean. How will her lawsuit against the HOA go down in flames if it’s murder but not involuntary manslaughter (accident)?
Either way they’ll sue claiming the HOA had someone “unstable” person being watchman of the community. GZ wasn’t even on duty anyway.
Also, P-M, it appears the prosecutor has over-charged on this one. If I understood a radio interview I heard yesterday correctly, in Florida 2d degree means they have to prove depraved indifference.
I simply don’t see how that can be done. The only thing they have is that he was following the kid for a bit. And as a neighborhood watch participant on duty, that was his job.
His injuries and eyewitnesses all prove there was a struggle with Jorge getting the worst of it. No depraved indifference there, either.
My question is how much money does a HOA have? Is she going to sue for the ice cream social or weedwhacker money??
Yes this does seem to be a shake-down propelled by the threat of unending racial strife. It will be repeated elsewhere, whether it works in this case or not.