Is this really how corrupt our prosecutors are?
The following DEFENDANT’S MOTION FOR SANCTIONS AGAINST STATE ATTORNEY’S OFFICE FOR PAYMENT OF ATTORNEY FEES AND COSTS has been filed with the Court:
http://www.gzdocs.com/documents/0313/mot_for_sanctions_fees.pdf
The following DEFENDANT’S MOTION FOR SANCTIONS AGAINST STATE ATTORNEY’S OFFICE FOR DISCOVERY VIOLATIONS has been filed with the Court:
http://www.gzdocs.com/documents/0313/mot_for_sanctions_discovery.pdf
Woo Hoo!
and 130 seat cushions disappeared in the blink of an eye after that list was filed.
The defense is doing a good job of burdening and vexing the prosecution and of building a record that will make any conviction subject to appeal on numerous grounds. The fundamental difficulty for the prosecution is that their case is weak on the facts but political and highly publicized so that it will have major consequences for them. Like everyone else, prosecutors do not like to lose, but the course and result of this case will leave a permananent mark on their careers and lives. A win would put a promotion or a major job offer or even a judgeship within reach, while a loss means they are damaged goods.
Then their successors can quietly drop the charges.
Where the heck is the “conservative” fla gov on stopping this farce?
A defensless child shot without mercy by somebody of a different race.
It happened in Georgia last weekend...but there will be no t-shirts printed or slogans copyrighted.
There's also a new development in a related court case. Zimmerman and NBC Universal Media, LLC have agreed to put on hold for now the civil suit Zimmerman filed against the media giant.Zimmerman has agreed to delay his suit against NBC. IMHO, that’s a bad move. Zimmerman has been damaged by the libel committed by NBC - it’s an open and shut case, a fact which does not depend on the outcome of the criminal case. Even if (for the sake of argument) Zimmerman were guilty of murder as charged by the state, he was not guilty of gratuitously mentioning the race of the person whom he deemed suspicious.NBC manufactured that double plus ungood violation of Political Correctness and put it in Zimmerman’s mouth. NBC committed the tort, and they should answer for it, irrespective of the criminal case against Zimmerman. And it would only be justice if the money came soon enough to help Zimmerman mount his legal defense in the criminal case.
That happened after defense attorneys had sent two deposition notices to the state, spelling out that the session would be videotaped and identifying the company that would do the recording.
Defense attorneys tried for five hours that day to get de la Rionda to change his position, telephoned the judge in Sanford several times, and after a five-hour delay, began the deposition without the videotape. They did not complete it.
In Tuesday's paperwork, O'Mara asked the judge to fine de la Rionda $4,000, the amount of money wasted in lawyers' time, as well as that of the court reporter and video operator during that five-hour delay.
The deposition was scheduled for 9:00 AM with a second one 6 hours later for 3:00 PM.
Since they are billing the prosecution then is it fair to assume that the judge sided with the defense on videotaping the Witness 8 deposition.
That means that at best they got through only 1 hour of a scheduled 6 hour deposition. Was that 1 hour on video?? Maybe or maybe not.
But that leaves the rest of the deposition -- perhaps as much as 5 hours of Witness 8 deposition on video -- all to come.
This ploy may very well have backfired on the prosecution.
Thanks Uncle Chip for keeping us updated on this farce of a trial...
I live in Tampa so I get almost no local news on this case....
O’Mara is doing his job.