[ConorMacNessa]

Mr. Zimmerman has been swimming in shark-infested waters since the news of this case broke. Of course Crump would take any statement of sympathy from Zimmerman and distort it into an apology, if not a confession. There's no way you're going to get Crump out of the case. He is "zealously" pursuing the case of his client. There is almost no limit to what the Court will allow in zealousness on behalf of one's client.

I say again, if Zimmerman were my client, I would not permit him to make any statement that could possibly be construed as an admission of guilt.



Nos genuflectitur ad non princeps sed Princeps Pacem!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[ModelBreaker]

That Crump was so upset in Court with his stupid questions about the timing of the apology and so upset now he has to talk about it in public suggests it may have been a good strategy.

[ArmstedFragg]

Well, I tend to agree, although he’s actually zealously pursuing his client’s future civil case, and probably also zealously pursuing the opportunity to spread his firm’s reputation for zealotry, thereby making settlements more likely in future civil actions for other clients. His client isn’t a party at the moment.

The interesting comment in this story was to the effect that he’d actually asked for the “apology”. If true, he prompted the response that he later tried to take advantage of. Another reason for your “don’ say nothing” stance.