[zeestephen]

From the Orlando Sentinel - 12 December 2012:

“Just above Serino’s signature, the veteran investigator wrote, ‘I believe there exists probable cause for issuance of a capias charging George Michael Zimmerman with manslaughter.’”

I am still searching for the whole affidavit.....

[101stAirborneVet]

"I believe there exists probable cause for issuance of a capias charging George Michael Zimmerman with manslaughter."

I hope you don't think I'm arguing with you just for the sake of it. I just mean to point out that this is standard practice in a death case (and many other serious crimes), and the above is standard language in the document that is presented to the prosecutor as a matter of course.

Serino may very well have believed Zimmerman should be charged.

My point is only that the fact he presented an affidavit with the above language is literally standard procedure, and in itself does not mean that he did want Zimmerman charged.

[101stAirborneVet]

And to expand on that just a bit more:

If there is the slightest whiff of probable cause, even if the totality of the circumstances leads you completely away from it, you would prepare this document in this way.

[101stAirborneVet]

There is also this factor, as reported by the Orlando Sentinel:

I suspect this is where Serino got his "whiff" of probable cause.