Posted on 11/30/2012 4:47:45 PM PST by Uncle Chip
It was a strange development in a case that has seen more than its share: Chris Serino, the lead Sanford police investigator in the Trayvon Martin shooting, hired famed Casey Anthony defense attorney Jose Baez to represent him at his upcoming deposition in the case.
It's unclear what prompted Serino to hire a private attorney — eschewing available representation by the city of Sanford, his employer. But one issue likely to come up is his double-talk on whether there was enough evidence to support George Zimmerman's arrest as controversy surrounding the case spiraled out of control last spring.
Serino wrote in a sworn affidavit that there was probable cause to arrest Zimmerman. But he later told the Federal Bureau of Investigation he was pressured to author that document and didn't believe the evidence was sufficient for the manslaughter charge he recommended.
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And Serino isn't the only Sanford officer whose testimony could prove troublesome for prosecutors in the second-degree murder case against Zimmerman: High-ranking fellow officers largely agreed in March that there was not sufficient evidence to arrest Zimmerman.
Zimmerman's legal team has since listed several of them, including former Sanford police Chief Bill Lee Jr. and Serino's supervisors, as witnesses the defense plans to call at trial.
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On March 12, Lee said at a press conference that his agency could not arrest Zimmerman because investigators had failed to establish probable cause.
Four days later, Lee and several officers, including Serino, went over details of their investigation in an exclusive interview with the Sentinel, and again insisted they didn't have enough evidence to disprove Zimmerman's self-defense claim.
"We did not have enough for an arrest warrant," Serino said at that time.
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If you think Terry Schiavvo was a bad deal, you aint seen nothing yet.
Wait until Obama tells Granny she is too old for that Kidney she needs, or tells Grandpa we cannot be wasting money on his prostate Cancer.
Wait until it takes 3 months to be screened for Breast cancer, and you have to pay tax on your hospital bill.
Under Obama care, there won’t be any Terry Schiavvo’s, they will be cut off as soon as a doctor decides they are brain dead.
I talked to an idiot Obama voter today who said Obama was great, then he complained because his boss told him he would no longer carry his health insurance, and this guy was too stupid to realise he voted for that
I’m going to start refering to myself as a: Irish, Polish, German, Jewish, Catholic, Caucasion American. That should piss everybody off.
Political correctness and pressure from the Black community make these people go crazy, I guess.
Incidently, the Black girl who made all the false accusations against the Duke ball players was never charged with anything. Their excuse, "It would serve no useful purpose."
She was later jailed for the murder of her boyfriend, I've read.
That does seem to be the case.
O'Donnell, of John Jay College, predicted the state may have to "throw the cops under the bus."
Said O'Donnell: "The prosecution will come back and say, 'What do you expect them to say about a case that they bungled?'"
Actually White Hispanic makes sense in a bizarre way.
The racism down south is MUCH greater than even the racism in the USA black community.
Hispanics do subdivide along color lines.
Cop fears being pressured into perjury to support prosecution.
The bombshell in the latest motion is that the State’s star witness, DeeDee, was never a minor in this case but has been 18 [atleast one of the DeeDees] all along and the State has been editing all its evidence that it is turning over to the defense to conceal that fact — and more.
http://184.172.211.159/~gzdocs/documents/1112/motion_to_compel.pdf
Zimmerman can sue for millions from many directions including suing the MSM that defamed him. Let the suing begin!!!
Do your own DD!
By all means, he should stick it to the race racketeers and those who do their bidding!
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