Posted on 04/13/2012 12:14:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A Florida judge on Friday offered to recuse herself from the George Zimmerman case in a surprise hearing because of her husband's ties to a CNN legal analyst and commentator.
The Orlando Sentinel reports that Judge Jessica Recksiedler disclosed that her husband works for Mark NeJame, a prominent Orlando attorney, in the five-minute hearing Friday afternoon. In addition to working for his law firm, NeJame sounds off on the Zimmerman case for CNN. It's unclear if either attorney will take Recksiedler up on her offer and ask her to step aside....
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No one wants to be anywhere near this case.
Wait and see, there is no way that Angela Corey will personally prosecute this case. Some flunky will be told to hold the bag.
The drive-by media have painted it as a grown white man vigilante hunting down and killing a young black boy.
The problem is that the actual facts are we have on the one hand (1) a 5’8” slightly pudgy jewish-hispanic who tutors black kids on the weekends, and on the other hand (2) a 6’2” “No-Limit-N*gg*” (what he called himself) with gold teeth, tattoos, marijuana, burglary-tool-and-ladies-jewelry and sporting a serious gangsta attitude (judging by his twitter account) on the other hand.
When “the man” asked him what he was doing in the neighborhood did it suddenly occur to Trayvon that he might be able to make his gangsta bones in that moment by beating the head in of the little hispanic man standing in front of him? There is nothing that gets more respect in the gangsta world than having killed someone.
If any side does it’ll be the prosecution. SEE my posts #6.
The uprising would be short lived.
Goodness I guess nobody reads the dang thread before commenting. This judge does have a legitimate appearance of conflict that needed to be publicly acknowledged. Her husband is the one who gave the Zimmerman family his current attorney Mark O’Mara’s name for helping with the defense.
I say we blindfold ourselves and judge them (GZ/TM) on the content of their character.
I’d want nothing to do with this mess of a case. Rule using law and facts as a guide and you will get vilified.
gotcha.
yes both sides can file for her to be removed, and her offer is to both. you’re correct.
CNN employee and CNN shocked to learn that individual close to both is.. honest!
Won't use position to "advance the cause," says judge.
"You're fired," say husband, CNN.
You are correct.
I think I am too angry at this indictment to think straight.
“This judge does have a legitimate appearance of conflict”
Actually it does not appear that it was her husband who recommended Mark O’Mara, only that it was someone else who happens to be in the same law firm who recommended him.
Unless there is something more to it, it is questionable that there is even an appearance of impropriety. If it was just the recommendation we’re talking about and not the disclosure of confidences, then it’s a pretty weak “appearance of impropriety.”
If you are a lawyer and someone contacts you to take a case, and you decline because of a conflict or some other reason, it’s not unusual to point that person to other law firms in the area who specialize in handling those types of cases. That does not in and of itself create a conflict for another person in your firm.
But anyone can argue pretty much anything is an “appearance” of impropriety, so if someone doesn’t want to be involved, it’s a good way to get off the hook because no one can really second guess it.
I believe she said her husband *works for* the CNN commentator who recommended O’Mara, among others, to Zimmerman.
Okay maybe my reading comprehension skills are off, because it’s simple to me. The judge’s husband Mark Nejame is a legal commentator on CNN and used to work with Zimmerman’s current attorney Mark O Mara on TV doing commentary for legal cases.
When the Zimmerman family saw NeJame on TV doing commentary they contact him to represent George, but he declined to take their case however he pointed them to a few of his colleagues who would do a good job.
This DOES have an APPEARANCE of conflict on the judges part. Maybe only a slight appearance of conflict, but if she lets say had a husband who recommended a good attorney to the Martin family I would want her off the case.
IMO, I think all these people involved in the legal area are afraid of threats from either side of the potential verdict.
There! The judge just admitted that the case *is* about the media!
You can bet Mark NeJame was hoping she wouldn’t get caught. So much for journalistic ethics, CNN didn’t even bother to disclose he was married to the judge who was going to decide the fate of Zimmerman. This whole story has stunk from day one.
This would be a tough decision for the Zimmerman counsel, the defendant does not get to pick the judge, it is a case of what’s worse, the devil you know, or the devil you don’t.
I was trying to point out the the judge isn’t married to NeJame, but that her husband work for NeJame.
People have been talking about what Trayvon Martin’s death says about race relations in America.
What does it say about race relations in America when a group of obvious thugs and bullies are able to intimidate a judge and jury and no one bats an eye?
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