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Posted on 05/19/2012 4:42:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The last images of Trayvon Martin before he was killed show him at the counter at a Sanford 7-Eleven as he buys Skittles and an iced tea. Another newly released photo shows a yellow tarp covering his body just a short distance from the house he was walking back to on Feb. 26.
George Zimmerman’s doctor says his nose likely was broken in their encounter, and more photos show Zimmerman’s face and head up close on the night he shot Martin, which he says he did in self-defense.
The public viewing of these images, while clearly permissible under Florida law, may make it extremely difficult to find an impartial jury, a South Florida legal expert told NBC 6.
“It makes everybody a CSI expert, a defense attorney, a prosecutor,” said Miami criminal defense attorney and former public defender Jonathan Meltz, who is not associated with the case. “To get a fair and impartial jury is difficult. They will be tainted.”
The new images were part of a massive amount of evidence, including 184 pages of documents and recordings, which prosecutors released in the second-degree murder case against Zimmerman Thursday. He has pleaded not guilty.
Meltz says the blood on the back of Zimmerman’s head, and the frontal shot which his damaged nose – which two police officers who responded to the scene described as broken in a Sanford Police offense report – will go a long way in court.
“It appears to bolster the defense more than the state or the prosecution,” Meltz said. “You've seen multiple pictures of what his head looked like. The blood scrapings, the injuries, multiple witnesses are talking about a broken nose.”
The new documents include numerous witness accounts of the incident at The Retreat at Twin Lakes, some of which conflict.
Martin family attorney Benjamin Crump said “we’re very happy that this information is all out, it’s all transparent, so everybody in America can see it for themselves and judge it for themselves. We don't have to have no third parties interpreting it for us.”
I’m not seeing any threads about Zimmerman being black himself. His G-Grandfather was. That doesn’t fit the American racist definition of profiling, or hate crimes.
No, his grandfather was. I posted a photo the other day of his grandma - Peruvian, grandpa - black, and his mother as a baby.
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What i had read was that his mother’s father was “Afro-Peruvian” which would make George Zimmerman one-eighth black, if the great-grandfather was solely of African descent. But he could have other black ancestry—the photo of his grandfather showed him as very dark-complexioned but I don’t know if that meant he was of African descent. So GZ could be more than 1/8th black. He probably has a larger share of African ancestry than Jeremiah Wright does.
<<I have been wondering about that. I can’t recall evidence being released in other cases prior to a trial.<<
It’s a Florida thing. That’s the law there.
What will make finding a jury difficult is the widespread circulation of falsehoods done by the media, the race-baiters, and the “prosecutor”. Their intention in circulating that crap is to pollute the jury pool.
In any case, plenty of evidence is released before trial to the public. The idea that because it’s released now, a person will get a mind set and therefore biased is ridiculous. It’s the same evidence they will hear in court....unless the media does its own thing...that could never happen. They would never lie or alter tapes or present child images of a punk to influence the population or follow an agenda.....”Could be my son....disgusted !!!
“How did he pass the Florida bar exam?”
Probably the same way he would have passed down here in Texas. “Our sensitivity to cultural differences has resulted in adjustment and alignment to increase minority representation.”
Translation into English: we’ve lowered the test standards, again.
AP US Government and Politics teachers teach it the same way. They’re nearly all liberals and likely regular DU posters.
“....he buys Skittles and an iced tea.”
I know it’s not a big thing, but IT WASN’T iced tea!
It was Arizona (brand) Watermelon fruit juice cocktail.
NOT TEA!!! Just the facts.
Following somebody and asking them what you are doing makes you a stalker under Florida law, and you lose any right to self defense while committing this felonious act<<
Is there any evidence that Zim asked Martin what he was doing? I thought Zim’s account was that the first words were Martin asking him “Do you have a f-—en problem?”
With the mountains in labor like this, will it give birth to a ridiculous mouse (Zimmerman pleads to misdemeanor disorderly conduct and is sentenced to house arrest time served or whatever lets him go tout suite).
deep woods rednecks (good) or urban food stamp mushrooms (bad)
Yeah, the Obama/Sharpton Lynch Mob is undoubtedly saying “If it weren’t for all this evidence, getting a conviction would be easy!”
“impartial” is not “ignorant”.
Does that video have its own thread?
Doctor
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