Posted on 05/14/2012 7:45:02 PM PDT by kristinn
Robert Zimmerman is a retired magistrate living like a fugitive.
He stays in hotels under assumed names. He pays cash so no one will look at his surname and make the connection: This is the father of one of the nation’s most controversial murder defendants.
“It’s been unimaginable,” he said Monday. “Our lives will never be the same.”
Zimmerman, 64, is the father of George Zimmerman, the Central Florida neighborhood watch volunteer who faces a second-degree murder charge for the Feb. 26 killing of Miami Gardens teen Trayvon Martin.
The high school student’s death exploded into a politically volatile case, the kind that drives thousands to the streets in protest — the kind that brings hate mail. Rattled by death threats and shaken by personal information posted on the web, Zimmerman, his wife and his mother-in-law with Alzheimer’s are now on the run, waiting for the trial they are convinced will exonerate their son.
“All of a sudden, it’s pack up what you can and leave,” he said. “Staying in this hotel room or that hotel room.”
His life upside down and expenses soaring, the retired magistrate wants the public to be clear that he has not received a cent of donations from anyone, despite the $204,000 his son has amassed through a website to help pay for his defense. In an interview with the Miami Herald, Zimmerman criticized the media, prosecutors and attorneys who he says have distorted information and spread lies about a man who mentored black kids and was deeply committed to his community. The Virginia native said he’s sure of one thing: his son’s innocence.
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
Welcome to Barry’s “Hope and Change” Amerika! Yes, he can!
Retired magistrate?
Retired = willingly no longer working
magistrate = type of judge
I do feel for this guy. The only family I know personally who was ever touched by a murder charge, was luckily named Smith.
My thoughts and prayers are with all members of the Zimmermann family. From everything I’ve read, George Zimmerman is a very decent human being and an upstanding citizen. They don’t deserve all the irrational hatred spewed in their direction.
Is there a hate crime involved?
Yes. A hate crime perpetrated by Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.
But they have gotten away with it for years and will continue with it as long as it makes them a dollar.
Well look on the bright side: Obama’s going to get re-elected. :)
Now go pay your taxes - your hard working government is broke. :)
/sarc(????)
It makes me sick to see what has been done to this family.
He should move to North Dakota.
“Our lives will never be the same”
Just as the lives of white parents who lose a child to black criminals.
What an idiot
I just heard on the news that the FBI is charging Zimmerman with a hate crime...
mark
Hope. Change. Black racism.
I’d suggest Alaska ...
The writer's last name is Robles. In Spaniard countries judges are called magistrates.
Just another ethnic and cultural alien.
I don’t know Mr. Zimmerman but he can come to my house in Texas and rest assured while this commie race hunt plays out. Any racist diversity minion who came after him... that would be the last thing they do on earth. I am not kidding. Why is this man moving about in fear?
Well, since with gun walking he can allow the murder of federal workers, why can’t he personaly ruin entire families when his power is threatened by his own people because of need of action for this tragedy?
Obama is very very scared.
Magistrates usually handle arraignments, search warrants, and some other judicial proceedings. In federal courts, they are appointed by judges for 8 year terms.
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