Posted on 07/05/2012 9:01:28 AM PDT by jakerobins
SANFORD, Fla. - George Zimmerman, the man accused in the death of Trayvon Martin, was granted $1 million bond Thursday morning.
A second bond hearing in the George Zimmerman case was held Friday morning. More
In his ruling, Judge Kenneth Lester scoffed at the notion Zimmerman was confused at the time of his first bond hearing.
Lester said Zimmerman was "manipulating the system to his own benefit."
Zimmerman spent the 4th of July holiday behind bars after the judge could not come to a decision on whether to grand him bond at a hearing Friday.
Lester said he considered everything he heard at Zimmerman's bond hearing last Friday, and would make a decision Thursday. He decided $1 million was a fair amount.
(Excerpt) Read more at wesh.com ...
Do not be rude to me. There is no reason to be. Good grief.
Then read before you post —
Understood. I hope the lawyer will use money from the “legal defense fund” for Zimmerman’s bail. But I also am waiting to read/hear that this fund will be used for this, or if they are going to set up another separate account for bail.
Correct me if my recall is faulty... Zimmerman did not testify at either bail hearing, did he?
If he did not, how can he be prosecuted for perjury? Did he sign a sworn statement that he did not know how much money was in the account? Or did he testify? I just can’t remember...
How could they release this bad evil man, he DOES NOT LOOK AT ALL LIKE OBAMA’S SON!
As far as I know he signed no sworn statement of what was in his account. If he had you can bet that it would be in the state's paper releases. But there is no such document.
But none of that seems to matter to Lester who gave the prosecution the green light today to charge him with being a potted plant when Shelly testified or misrepresenting his financial status. And when they do so, even after paying out $100,000 to the bailbondsman, he will again revoke bond.
I don’t see how Gov. Scott can intervene in this case. An unethical judge can be removed in due time but that time is not now.
The “manipulating the system” is a stupid and asinine as “he lied in court” and “silent like a potted plant”.
First... what happened to GZ constitutionally guaranteed rights?
GZ was not asked about the money in the paypal accounts that EVERYONE knew about.
Shellie Zimmerman was asked and said she didn’t know and gave them the name of the person who did.
Lester claims the defrauded the court by not disclosing how much money he, George Zimmerman had. In today’s rulings authored by Crump, he calls it other people’s money. So which is it Kenny boy?
The bottom line... this farce is to undermine SYG.
Time to send George some more money!
George fired his first lawyers.
However, one of them, Hal Uhrig, couldn't contain himself in the aftermath and unloaded his version of the case.
Now follow that up with his arrest and the failure of his next lawyer to firmly tie down his financial situation. We have conversations in the first bailbond hearing between MoM and the judge about the Paypal money and how or whether it can be used. Everyone on planet earth knew that there was Paypal money, and the judge implies in his own words that he is not sure whether that Paypal money can be used for bail, that it depends how the account was set up. None of the professionals in the court that day seem any too concerned with the precise amount of money in the account -- only getting SZ on record saying something, anything, even "I don't know".
If the judge didn't know and MoM didn't know, the SZ's "I don't know" seems to have been perfectly understandable.
It was all done to impeach SZ as a witness so she could not testify again in court on her husband's behalf. Read the transcript. 90% of her time was spent denying the state's accusations against her husband for his RO and incident with an undercover officer. I doubt that MoM had spent any time prepping either of them for court that day.
This is the sort of stuff that spawns a revolution...
<>The bottom line... this farce is to undermine SYG.<>
And GZ has a lawyer who hates SYG. Could that explain his part in this farce:
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2012/07/06/ive-no-more-tongue-to-bite/#more-43435
He never testified at the bond hearing about the Paypal money. He has every right under that Constitution that we supposedly hold dear to remain silent.
That makes his word useless and he’s the only one the Judge could rely on
If GZ is such a liar then why does the judge believe him when he says that he shot TM [allbeit in self defense]. The judge even admits in his order that this is the one indisputable fact in the case. Well it's indisputable because GZ stepped up to the batter's box and admitted it, BUT if he's such a liar how can the judge possibly believe him with that admission. Hmmmm -- he's credible when he admits he shot TM, but not credible when he says that it was in self-defense, all because he exerted his right to remain silent on the bond issue??? How does the judge get to pick and choose what words of his to believe???
It seems our forefathers knew that and gave us rights to protect us from just such tyrannies, but when it comes to the application of such rights, we all go weak-kneed.
I would love to put all the high and mighty who have fallen for the potted plant accusation to change places with GZ and see if you might think that no matter what you said or how you said it or how many times to how many people, you would still be called a liar by people who know you are telling the truth but for political/personal/financial reasons cannot admit it.
Both Hal Uhrig and Craig Sonner had appeared multiple times in the news media on GZ's behalf. But I was shocked when I learned how little actual communication had actually taken place between lawyers and client. From a post on 10 April:
Zimmerman attorney’s Craig Sonner and Hal Uhrig give lengthy press conference announcing that they no longer represent George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin shooting incident of Feb 26, 2012. Sonner & Uhrig both state their announcement was based primarily on calls both received from State Attorney Angela Corey’s office informing them Zimmerman contacted the State Attorney’s office today telling the SA that [neither] Sonner nor Uhrig were his attorney’s. Uhrig and Sonner said that while they did assist Zimmerman’s father in setting up a bank account for pay-pal donations to go into and a website on behalf of Zimmerman, they did not establish the web site “TheRealGeorgeZimmerman,” nor did either have access to or control over any donations made to George Zimmerman through Pay-Pal.
Apparently, GZ's inability to communicate effectively with counsel (or counsel to get it out of him or even counsel to surf the web) continued with his new lawyer. According to this post on Friday, 27 April, it was not until 25 April that Mark O'Mara learned of the PayPal account:
O’Mara said he was only aware of two accounts maintained by Zimmerman’s friends containing about $2,700. He found out about the PayPal accounts on Wednesday night.“In talking to George [Zimmerman], after I was trying to shut down his full Internet presence because of some impersonators and other problems with Twitter and Facebook, he asked me what to do with his PayPal accounts,” O’Mara said Thursday during the CNN T.V. interview.
“I asked him what he was talking about, and he said those are the accounts that had the money from the website he had, and there was about $200,000 to $204,000.”
Sheesh!
Everyone on planet earth knew that there was Paypal money,
Yep, and they knew it at the first bond hearing, and, although Shellie Zimmerman declined to give an estimate of the balance, she did offer to bring her brother-in-law into consultation. But the offer was declined.
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