From the CNN evidence tampering story
“When it takes (defense atty) six months to get a color picture of my client, when the first one I get is a black and white, when I look at it and go, ‘This is off a cell phone; cell phones don’t take black-and-white pictures,’ and I ask for a color copy, that takes two months,” defense lawyer Mark O’Mara said Wednesday in an interview with CNN’s Martin Savidge.
“And then I get a pastel-colored color copy of it, and it takes me to file a motion and have a hearing set before I get the actual .jpeg, no, that’s frustrating. That should not happen. I’ve done this too long to make believe in my own mind that that’s happenstance.”
O’Mara said he learned about the missing information months after he was to have received it. “The only way that we really found out about it ... and the only way that we really found out about the intensity of the failure to give us information was when a person from their own office, a whistle-blower, came forward and said, ‘I gave them that information in the middle to end of January’ and we didn’t get it until June 4th.”
He said he was “beyond” shocked. “It could have derailed the trial,” he said.
The defense said it did not get the complete report until a few days before the trial. O’Mara and co-counsel Don West argued that they needed more time to go through the information found on Martin’s phone and asked for a delay, which was denied.
Judge Debra Nelson said before the trial that the possibility of sanctions — requested by the defense — would be addressed after the verdict.”
http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/13/justice/zimmerman-it-firing/index.html#disqus_thread
Incredible.
Wow - there is going to be a lot of trouble for the prosecution all the way to the top after this, regardless of verdict. I really think they wanted to railroad GZ so badly they didn’t care what would happen later on. The only goal was to appease the savages for their votes and to keep them from rioting. A conviction will not withstand appeal. It may take years but the lives of Corey, Nelson, etc will not end well.
Verdict first trial later.