Hey, take a look at NOT the victim!
It seems that both Bernie and Crump have been doing the historical revisions. According to Crump's interview on HLN last night he said his recording device had already been turned over to FDLE. What's up with that, Bernie???
If we follow the logic of Bob Costas,shouldn't it be Zimmerman's GUN on trial?
Hey, take a look at NOT the victim!
Every prosecutor on the team deserves to be disbarred, based on what I’ve seen thus far. This is Duke Lacrosse all over again.
The prosecutor is trying desperately to save his own a$$.
Damn hard to think of a reason the defense should not have full access to a recording of an interview with a witness.
He begins with a presumption of innocence.
“Prosecutor: Zimmerman trying to ‘co-opt the mantle of victimhood’ from Trayvon Martin”
No co-opting is necessary when one -is- the victim of an attack.
Well, I'm glad that somebody finally "gets it"!
I've read a couple of the State's responses to motions filed by Zimmerman's attorney. I decided to stop when I came across this statement in the State's Response to Defendant's Motion to Take Additional Deposition:
"[Zimmerman] then followed Trayvon Martin even though he was told by the SPD operator not to follow the Victim."
What the dispatcher actually said when Zimmerman said he was following Martin was:
"OK we don't need you to do that."
The City of Sanford has stated in writing that the dispatcher's statement was not an order.
Nobody ever told Zimmerman not to follow Martin, yet the prosecutors repeat this lie in pleadings.
Regardless of my thoughts on the specific case, I would find this comment unprofessional at best. The prosecutor's job is to select the appropriate charge for an alleged crime, and to present the evidence truthfully in order to prove the allegations based on evidence. Playing public relations games is, to put it mildly, disgustingly inappropriate.
Further, when the defense argument is based on self-defense, the defense is supposed to take on "the mantle of victimhood". If Trayvon Martin threw the first punch, and it looks like he threw the first dozen or more punches, then George Zimmerman was the victim, and it is entirely appropriate for him to take on "the mantle of victimhood". If George Zimmerman was in danger of death or serious bodily harm, then it was appropriate for him to shoot his attacker in order to stop the threat. If not, then it is the prosecutor's job to (despite a complete absence of reliable witnesses for that assertion) prove that Zimmerman attacked Trayvon Martin and that Zimmerman was not in danger of death or serious bodily harm when he shot Trayvon Martin - and to prove both in a court of law, not on some talk show. I hope this prosecutor will lose his job, be sued for everything he has, and then be prosecuted for criminal misconduct.
Hey Bernie!
Is THAT your job?
Controlling the distribution of “Mantles of Victimhood”?
Or, are you worried that your prosecution is politically motivated, and substantively unfounded under the law, and the rules of evidence?
George Zimmerman is not only the victim of Trayvon Martin, he is also the victim of the State of Florida, the political hack republican Angelo Corey, and the cowardly republican Governor Rick Scott.
Florida republicans are a particularly yellow breed indeed.
Does Bernie trust Benjamin Crump enough to make the requested representations in paragraph 2 below:
or will he try to weasel out of it in court tomorrow.
Developing .....
Well DUH!
His claim from the beginning is self defense which would make him the victim.
A good deal of the evidence actually supports that claim
Disbar these political witchhunters
Playing to the crowd, trying to polute the jury pool... not going to work.
plus
equals NOT GUILTY!