Posted on 09/10/2013 9:47:02 AM PDT by SteveH
(CNN) — Mark O’Mara, the attorney who successfully defended George Zimmerman in his second-degree murder trial this year, will no longer represent his notorious client. “I am not representing George Zimmerman in his recent domestic altercation case or his impending divorce case,” O’Mara told CNN. Although Zimmerman’s murder trial is over, his legal battles are far from over.
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What a total disconnect between the title and Mara’s quote. Mara is not a domestic relations attorney. He’s first and foremost a criminal defense attorney. And a darn good one.
Mara wouldn’t be representing Zimmerman in his divorce or domestic issues, except possibly as a favor, but the bigger favor is to have each of the Zimmermans have a specialist in domestic relations law. Silly headline.
Why would a criminal Defense Attorney take a Domestic Case at all?
Leave some Lawyer in the Field take a Divorce Case, and stick to your specialty.
This is HUGH !
ROFL
I’m looking at the overall picture of the GZ story from beginning to current, and this is what I see. I was commenting on GZ getting heady since his acquittal, but then too from what I’ve read of him he’s always been a bit of an a-orifice. I believe his acquittal was just, but his attitude isn’t in his favor for winning the future.
GZ was IMO, and the jury’s thank goodness justified in killing Martin (self defense), but that does not make him instantly into a Saint. The guy is actually a jerk IMO, and my post was he needs some time with an old fashioned Drill Instructor in the military to straighten out that attitude of his.
Lots of guys learned in the military the World doesn’t revolve around their golden butts, and became better citizens after their military experience.
Gotta love the fake headlines.
What evidence do you have to support this assertion?
“What a misleading headline. Have they no shame?”
They dont even understand the concept of shame. Your dog has a better understanding of particle physics than the leftists in the media understand shame.
Listening to his remarks at the scene yesterday, one might suspect that he has experience in that area.
http://www.wftv.com/videos/news/raw-omara-talks-before-leaving-scene/vCB4yL/
Please tell me what exactly he has done wrong? Do you know something that I dont know?
Would not be the first time, so am open to correction, but anytime the police are called about a threat with a gun etc, they investigate
I dont know that George has done anything wrong? Are you watching HLN?
Your statement is factually (and grammatically) incorrect. That is all.
Zimmerman is an accident waiting to happen.
He has a natural talent for getting involved in volatile altercations.
I strongly believe a person can be pro second amendment and still think Georgie boy might be a couple cans short of a case.
What attitude?
MARK O'MARA, CNN LEGAL ANALYST: Well, what happened is what happens in a lot of divorce cases. I do a number of divorce cases and in those type of cases, there are much more heightened emotions than most criminal cases. In a case like this, there was a plan in place that Shellie would go back to the house, moved out several weeks before. She was going to go back to the house on Saturday to get all of whatever belongings she wanted and that was accomplished.
But as it turned out, she didn't get everything that she wanted and wanted to get some more. Showed up at the house, George was not aware of it. So when George showed up to see a trailer and truck outside the house, it was concerning to him. There were some conversations between George and her dad. You can see on the video that he was outside. George was just sitting on the bed of the truck waiting for them to finish.
When they finished, he then went in the house, this is on video, and lock the front door and going around to lock the back door, and Shellie tried to get in the front door, not knowing why it was locked. And I think that is why it sort of started. I will tell you that whatever yelling or touching may have happened between Shellie's dad and George is not on videotape. Unfortunately, we wish it was.
But we do know that a friend of George's, Wes, was there and was able to keep it at a minimum, there may have been touching between Wes and the father. But the reality is what happened here, it is a divorce case. These people have been living for 16 months under the spotlight and they're suffering from it. I think the divorce itself is a fallout from the whole case and it is now showing up with people acting inappropriately on all sides.
COOPER: Did Zimmerman have a gun in the car?
O'MARA: He had a gun with him, yes, and he was allowed to absolutely. I know there were reports that said he did not have a gun with him but he did.
COOPER: So when she says in the 911 call that he is sitting in the car with his gun, she was right?
O'MARA: Well, only because she knows he always carries his gun. She never said it was shown, nobody ever said it was shown. Again, remember now that things have calmed down everyone says they want to do nothing more than just go and get divorced?
COOPER: Are you concerned about George Zimmerman, your client. Because I don't know a lot of people who get pulled over by police as often as he seems to. I mean, prior to the trial he had run-ins with the police. There is obviously the Trayvon Martin shooting. He has been pulled over twice for speeding. I have seen videos of, and now this incident. I don't know a lot of people who have so much interaction with the police.
O'MARA: Well, I will tell you in the days before February 26, 2012, I know we talked about George having an arrest in the past. That was thrown out pretty quickly. I think George showed himself as the person he always was, very peaceful, very helpful. He truly was. From the 26 of February forward, for the past 16 months, I'm certain that George is under an enormous amount of stress. I think most people in his situation would be suffering some of that stress. And yes, I think it may show up. I think George does need to understand he is in the media or public scrutiny, and he needs to be very careful. Speeding tickets are not a good thing.
COOPER: Given that he is under stress like that, does it concern you that he is armed?
O'MARA: Well, he acted appropriately. He never took the weapon out. And the only thing he really did was tell the police was on the outside of his shirt. He made sure the gun was not moving anywhere and didn't do anything because Mr. Dean was sort of coming at him. That can be seen in the video.
COOPER: So he had the gun actually on his person, not in the glove box of his car.
O'MARA: That is correct.
COOPER: OK, and that doesn't concern you?
O'MARA: It doesn't that he acted appropriately. Certainly in a divorce situation everybody needs to be careful how they act, particularly in a high stress situation. But even with the unfortunate circumstances of this case, he acted appropriately, and I think the tape will show that.
COOPER: All right, well, I guess, the police are still investigating, are going to be looking more at those tapes. Mark O'Mara, appreciate you being on. Thank you.
O'MARA: Sure thing
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1309/09/acd.01.html
On one hand, CNN lies and says:
Mark O’Mara, the attorney who successfully defended George Zimmerman in his second-degree murder trial this year, will no longer represent his notorious client.
Then they turn around and say:
O’Mara, now a legal analyst for CNN, continues to be the attorney of record in the impending defamation lawsuit against NBC; Pennsylvania attorney Jim Beasley will be the lead attorney on the case.
These media idiots should be laughed out of the journalist industry. Except that lying and disinformation/propaganda is their stock and trade now.
(paraphrasing) 'I handle divorces and I'd rather handle criminal cases than divorces.'--(because they tend toward the emotional)
He also gave a lengthy defense concerning what just happened to George and why there was so much confusion.
He was concise, articulate (as usual) and even handed.---Sounded to me he was very much in George's corner.
Thanks for link. Mark hits 2nd a rights repeatedly and effectively.
http://m.wftv.com/videos/news/raw-omara-talks-before-leaving-scene/vCB4yL/
I looked at Mark’s webpage during the trial and was surprised to see that he does, in fact, do family court work (as we refer to it here) in addition to criminal defense. Quite unusual.
On the evening ABC (I believe) TV news broadcast on the west coast, O’Mara was asked what advice he had for Z. He responded: “Pay me.”
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