Posted on 06/01/2012 11:50:10 AM PDT by Lurker
Oh stow the Capt. Zimmerman crap already. This was every reason to revoke bond. Hiding money + failing to properly surrender his passport = flight risk.
You’ve got that figured out already, eh?
What's to figure out? What's to defend? He was ordered to reveal his financial assets, and failed to do so completely. He was ordered to surrender his passport, and apparently failed to disclose the existence of a second passport.
The Almighty State has the absolute right to know everything, doesn’t it? Except, when it comes to the trial, the background on the poor unfortunate Trayvon, right?
Ok, apparently other FR threads show it is being revoked.
When setting bail and determining whether a defendant is a flight risk, yes, a court is entitled to know about the defendant's finances and any passports that would enable the defendant to leave the country.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/04/27/v-print/2770968/zimmerman-attorney-to-tell-judge.html
Crump and the race baiters are behind this.
This fiasco would be history right now if Zimmerman had claimed that he was in the country illegally.
There are? I haven’t seen one. Can you provide a link?
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Yep, he never should have listened to the prosecutors when they told him, "Don't report the $135K or the second passport...it's cool."
You are right. Now, does the State have the right to put the defendant on bail under surveillance and record his conversations?
Zimm’s family has posted 2 homes. That is more than enough collateral.
The prosecutors are doing an Al Capone on Zimmerman - can’t convict him of 2nd degree, nail him on perjury.
Or an attempt to put him in a no bail or prohibitively high bail situation with a trial not until next year to try and force him to plead guilty to a lesser charge to avoid a year in jail before trial.
OUTRAGEOUS
Oh, you mean it’s ok to lie to the court then?
Is there any indication that the State did so in this case? The State apparently has recordings of his conversations prior to the Bond hearing, when he was in jail. Jail phone conversations are routinely monitored.
In any event, depending on the circumstance, the State likely can have the right to put a defendant on bail under surveilance, and to monitor his conversations as well. Bail is an alternative to being locked up, and so judges have wide latitude to set conditions of bail. If monitoring/surveillance are a condition of bail, then, yes, the State can monitor and surveil.
"A judge has revoked the bond of the neighborhood watch volunteer charged with killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin and ordered him returned to jail within 48 hours.
http://www.latimes.com/news/la-zimmerman-must-surrender-bond-revoked,0,1853909.story
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