Posted on 06/14/2012 6:02:38 AM PDT by marktwain
Yesterday I posted about how Alan Dershowitz alleged that Zimmerman prosecutor Angela Corey called up Harvard Law School complaining about Dershowitz and treatening to sue for libel based on Dershowitz’s criticisms of her handling of the case.
The whole incident seemed strange, and reflected conduct that should be off limits for any prosecutor and certainly for a senior prosecutor on a high profile case.
It appears, however, that the Dershowitz incident was no isolated incident. According to Ron Littlepage, a columnist for the (Jacksonville) Florida Times-Union, Corey has done this several times before:
"Last December when I wrote a column critical of how she handled the Cristian Fernandez case, she fired off a two-page, single-spaced letter on official state attorney letterhead hinting at lawsuits for libel.In the letter, she called me out for my “lack of knowledge and objectivity about the workings of the criminal justice system.” Ouch. I think she called me stupid….
Then there’s Corey’s spat with Sandy D’Alemberte.
D’Alemberte is a former president of the American Bar Association, a former president of Florida State University and a law professor — not too shabby in the legal credentials department.
When Corey was appointed to head up the investigation into the shooting death of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman, D’Alemberte had this to say:
“I cannot imagine a worse choice for a prosecutor to serve in the Sanford case. There is nothing in Angela Corey’s background that suits her for the task, and she cannot command the respect of people who care about justice.”
Earlier, D’Alemberte had criticized Corey in the Fernandez case. The reaction then: A public records request from her office to FSU seeking all emails, text messages and phone messages involving D’Alemberte related to Fernandez.
Then there was this:
When David Utter of the Southern Poverty Law Center was on Melissa Ross’s radio program and had the audacity to say that Fernandez should be in the juvenile system instead of adult court, that prompted a 20-minute scream-fest from Corey in a call to the center’s director.
Similar criticism from Jeff Goldhagen, a professor and chief of the division of community pediatrics at Shands Jacksonville, elicited a similar response from Corey."
Something appears to be rotten in the state of Zimmerman prosecution.
Perhaps that's why she's indicting Zimmerman's wife for perjury. She doesn't want a trial, where Zimmerman's defense attorney would expose her as an idiot. She wants to pressure Zimmerman into a plea bargain, by whatever means necessary.
Corey was fired by our previous DA for the way she treated interns. When the DA retired, Corey was on the Board of Directors for the Duval REC. The REC broke party rules and endorsed her during the primaries.
No one filed to run against her by the deadline this year; so she is automaticaly re-elected without facing the voters.
and the American Medical Association has only about 15-18% of practicing doctors.....
I wonder why the ABA and the AMA hold such reverence in the media, when they don't even represent a substantial MINORITY of practicing lawyers and doctors, respectively...
According to this article in the American Thinker,
Tracy Martin was spreading that rumor:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2878429/posts
I don’t think you understood my point. The DEFENSE will attempt to keep some of Zimmerman’s statements out of the trial.
Also, while I believe Zimmerman, many here don’t realize there is a legitimate legal issue as to whether he was justified in shooting and killing. Maybe not murder 2, but manslaughter, etc.
3 big items are obvious. Zimmerman knew police were on the way, he apparently had moved to the grass so his head wasn’t hitting the sidewalk at that point, and he got his arm free well enough to draw a gun and fire.
I’m not accepting all these points but that is the case. Zimmerman’s inconsistent statements seem to involve how he was able to have a free hand if he was under such a life threatening assault at that moment.
It will be contested next time. I think even the city dogcatcher would unseat her now.
We have the Serino affidavit now. It’s pages 26 & 27 in that 183 page document dump of May 17th. It suggests a manslaughter charge, and justifies that charge on the gounds I noted - Zimmerman is to blame for getting out of his truck, or, in the alternative, for not announcing his intentions.
Oh — okay.
That'll be an uphill battle too, unless the statement is in the nature of an involuntary confession, and I don't see that happening. I expect the prosecution to raise the same bogus arguments that have permeated discussion here and elsewhere. Not enough injury to justify use of deadly force, for one.
-- Zimmerman's inconsistent statements seem to involve how he was able to have a free hand if he was under such a life threatening assault at that moment. --
We'll have his account soon enough. As for the "at the moment" criteria, the justified use of force isn't limited to a particular instant. If Martin isn't showing any sign of letting up or otherwise abandoning his intention, Zimmerman's got a good argument that he remains in fear.
this is an unethical charge. Charge the wife with anything then offer her a plea deal based on flipping against her husband.
Corey should be the one in jail.
As to the idiotic notion that Zimmerman could not have freed a hand and retrieved his weapon during an assault, all it takes is rolling to the side opposite the weapon. There is a distincted agenda of some of the posters playing Traytable apologists.
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