Florida prosecutor Angela Corey today released tapes of calls George Zimmerman made from jail, over the protests of defense attorneys who wanted to prevent the calls’ release. Among them is a recording of an unnamed witness, called “Witness 9,” who makes a few unsubstantiated and unverifiable claims against Zimmerman.
A young woman told Florida authorities that suspect George Zimmerman had demonstrated racist behavior before his arrest in the Trayvon Martin murder investigation, according to new evidence released today by Special Prosecutor Angela Corey.
Zimmerman’s family, said the woman, identified only as “witness 9,” “don’t like black people if they don’t act like white people. They like black people if they act white.”
She further alleges that Zimmerman’s mother opposes President Obama’s re-election “because he is black. I am a racist.” It should be noted that Zimmerman’s family is multi-racial and includes members who are black. The witness says she never directly saw George Zimmerman disparage black people.
The witness also claims that Zimmerman tried to molest her when she was six. Problem: He was eight. She claims that this behavior went on for a decade, but there is at this point no evidence to support her. Her claims are not directly relevant to the second degree murder charges that Zimmerman faces, but the recording’s release can make it more difficult for Zimmerman to get a fair trial.
Your Florida Republican party at work.
This all reminds me–isn’t there supposed to be a part where George Zimmerman’s father says “more weight”?
You mean Democratic operatives and Al Sharpton…
So the Black Panthers are Repubs, Obama is a Repub, Jessie Jackson as well?? The US Liberal Media who lied & distorted facts on facts are Repubs
This prosecutor is out of control.
Being a Democrat means never having to obey principles or the rule of law if you don’t like someone.
The prosecuter should be the one on trial.
But then again, that’s routine for the criminal party.
Just for laughs, I bet that prosecutor Angela Corey is black too. Not that she’s racist, of course.
But you never know…
Angela Corey is of Syrian Arab descent. “Corey” is an Anglicized version of “Khoury.”
Do you have a problem with reading comprehension?
What don’t you understand about–
“Prosecutors also want it withheld.”
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In paperwork released Monday, Assistant State Attorney Bernie de la Rionda did not spell out what witness 9 told authorities, but he described it as information about his “bias against black persons,” including an unspecified “act.”
Two weeks ago, Circuit Judge Kenneth Lester Jr. issued an order, spelling out what public records prosecutors must release and which ones they should withhold. He ordered witness 9′s statements released.
O’Mara then filed paperwork, asking the judge to reconsider. Prosecutors also want it withheld.
None of that is in the story that I cited. The lead sentence of the one I cited says — “A young woman told Florida authorities that suspect George Zimmerman had demonstrated racist behavior before his arrest in the Trayvon Martin murder investigation, according to new evidence released today by Special Prosecutor Angela Corey.”
Where are you getting your info and why didn’t you link to it?
So, you admit you missed the part where release of this info was NOT optional by the prosecution, but mandated by LAW???
Seems like you were 5 kinds of irresponsible to title your post so deceptively.
Dunnit?
Which part? The idea it will poison the jury pool? Or the part where Corey released it?
You don’t know how to use a search engine either ?
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-07-02/news/os-george-zimmerman-witness-9-20120702_1_prosecutors-statements-witness
It’s a smear job. Who’s going to release similar material about Martin?
Everybody. Especially the defense.
You know, since everything else about this case seems like the redefinition of the phrases “due process of law” and “blnd justice” into “taking the path of least political resistance”, you can take whatever high horse you have and leave. Whether right or wrong on the facts this *one* time, this thing stinks.
I guess you’ll next be saying that Corey didn’t want to charge Zimmerman with 2nd degree murder either, she just felt she *owed* it to him…
Now that the FBI “racism” investigation crapped-out, the it-worked-on-Herman-Cain smear angle comes in… dang, Democrats just can’t leave fair play and honesty to work things out, now can they?
Zimmerman’s Gilded Lies Sealed His Fate
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It is sad to say this, but the concept of ‘critical thinking’ is now a rare talent in America. Too many accept information unconditionally, and then deny all clear evidence to the contrary once they are emotionally committed.
Critical thinking requires an individual to assess information in a manner that challenges all associated assumptions and conclusions. Believe nothing – challenge it all. It means you dig down on your own to determine the truthfulness of claims, instead of taking propaganda and PR at face value.
http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/18585
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Zimmerman Case: Who Uttered the Terrified Scream for Help Punctuated by a Gunshot?
https://frederickleatherman.wordpress.com/2012/07/13/zimmerman-case-who-uttered-the-terrified-scream-for-help-punctuated-by-a-gunshot/
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Was Trayvon Martin Attempting to get Away when George Zimmerman killed Him?
https://frederickleatherman.wordpress.com/2012/07/15/was-trayvon-martin-attempting-to-get-away-when-george-zimmerman-killed-him/
You cite two blogs, when the story I cited said twice that Corey released the tapes.
AS REQUIRED BY LAW.
Really, I expect a LOT better of people here.
Well, perhaps Ms. Corey can call up Pajamas Media and try to get Preston fired. The way she called up Harvard and tried to get Alan Dershowitz fired, for saying that Corey’s charge against Zimmerman had some serious problems. Because God forbid folks not think anything other than George Zimmerman is the most racist evil man alive. Or that Ms. Corey isn’t a *perfect* candidate for higher office in the great State of Florida…
Wow. That was stupid.
You’re absolutely right. What I meant to say was that hacks would come out–perhaps from the left, perhaps from the Florida GOP, perhaps from folks associated with the DA’s office itself, who knows?–and would try to do their level best to make sure anyone wandering on by understood that in Florida, and especially in regards to the George Zimmerman case, “all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds” and that good citizens should just keep moving on, no travesties to see here.
And I say that as a man who thinks Zimmerman might have instigated the fight. I’ve just seen nothing that would make me do as Corey did, and definitely nothing that would get me beyond the “reasonable doubt” point, and thus I continue in my belief that this is a travesty caused by political correctness. For it is.
“all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds”
See? You just can’t help the stupid. If you’d avoid that kind of vacant exaggeration, you MIGHT be able to make a respectable point.
Well, “vacant” is certainly a new way to describe that expression. Not seemingly an overly penetrating one, mind, and not one to really win approval in the English Lit.*** departments, but probably a new one. So you have that going for you, which is nice.
I wish you a good day–I already know you will try to get the last word in, it’s what you do, so I await the reply, sure to be of brilliance.
***French lit, really.
Yes that was stupid. Corey should never have made that call.
tom, I cannot (and won’t try to) argue with your religious faith.
You have not seen the State case against Zimmerman. Nobody has.
But you have determined that a very experienced, highly respected prosecutor (who you and I may not like personally) HAS no evidence.
That is crazy.
Now, it COULD be true. But at this point nobody knows.
Except on blind faith.
Clearly you missed the part where Preston’s source made no such claim.
I expect you “miss” anything that contradicts you.
tom, this is how I roll…
Before I put a blog post accusing a public official (or any other person) of something as egregious as “poisoning a jury pool”, I read up on the facts. See, I value reputation. Mine and others’.
If doing LESS than that is good with you, I guess you get to live with that.
No Rags, this is how you roll. You take the even the most facile argument which supports your predetermined conclusion and run with it–witness your simplistic argument that the COURT ORDERED IT!…As if that is dispositive.
Corey, in an in this case uncharacteristic fit of professional behavior, opposed the release of irrelevant material which would poison the jury pool–I suppose if she by some grotesque miscarriage of justice wins–she wants one less arrow in the quiver of an appeal.
Is she actually minded a poisoned jury pool, she would have appealed the order to release the material. This way, since she is a dishonest hack, she feels the jury gets poisoned and her hands she thinks are clean.
In the eyes of the likes of you, I suppose they are.
Again, one more time, what actual evidence supports Zimmerman’s guilt?
Corey doesn’t have any either.
Unless she’s breaking the law and not referring to it in her submissions, itself evidence of professional misconduct on her part.
“It is sad to say this, but the concept of ‘critical thinking’ is now a rare talent in America. Too many accept information unconditionally, and then deny all clear evidence to the contrary once they are emotionally committed.
Critical thinking requires an individual to assess information in a manner that challenges all associated assumptions and conclusions. Believe nothing – challenge it all. It means you dig down on your own to determine the truthfulness of claims, instead of taking propaganda and PR at face value.”
But if I did that I could never be a Florida Special Prosecutor assigned to handle a racially-charged case…Spike Lee might even out my address…
“Honesty,” “fair play,” and “truth” are words which do not exist in the Democratic DNA. Any Florida Democrat speaking those three words with respect to Zimmerman would be immediately banished to Minot, North Dakota.
What do you have against the poor people of Minot, that you would do such a thing?
I say dump ‘em off somewhere in the middle of stinking Desertville, Afghanistan.
GIMMIE A BREAK !!
I linked a news report from the Orlando Sentinel– a major local newspaper in Central Florida.
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-07-02/news/os-george-zimmerman-witness-9-20120702_1_prosecutors-statements-witness
You are doing your best to give me reason to remove PJ Tattler from my RSS feed.
Do you understand what the word “Reply” means?
Do you understand that YOU have to back up YOUR assertions? “Google it” is not evidence.
Do you understand that citing random members of the lynch mob is not evidence?
I doubt you’ll remove the Tatler…spin control for potential jurors is too important, no? Must not let anyone believe Corey is anything but bright shining truth and virtue…
Assume she’s a mean old bitty, who threatens her critics with legal action (the latter is true).
STFW…???? She is a prosecutor, acting within the scope of her office.
Yes or no.
She is certainly not acting in the scope of her office, she is bringing murder charges without any evidence to support them.
What is your training in the law?
Are you one of those conspiracy nuts who wants us to believe that the Florida government AND criminal defense bar are all part of a conspiracy?
Really?
Conspiracy, Ragpierre? Oh, no.
It just simply requires a lot of courage to go against the forces of political correctness. The African-American (or black, or whatever is the current PC name) community wants the head of George Zimmerman. My guess is, that unless folks of good will and integrity make their own decisions–decisions that will come with a penalty–that the black community in fact is going to get that head. Not because George Zimmerman either did or did not commit murder, but because no one of influence is willing to say “no” if a certain group demands “yes”.
The players have changed since segregation ended, but this is an old tale. Go read “The Ox-Bow Incident”.
OHhhhhh…
So YOUR theory is that everybody in the Florida criminal justice system AND the Florida defense bar are all such poltroons that they are cowed by the bad Black forces of terror?
Nutz.
The Ox Bow Incident is a novel.
Duh.
“Nutz”
So was Nifong and the people who defended him.
You sound the same.
Well, tom, you are an idiot.
Nifong was NOT acting within the scope of his office.
AT ALL.
This is why he was disgraced, disbarred, sued and jailed.
See?
Ragspierre, you may mistake me.
This is your lack of capacity to comprehend.
Nifong acted outside the scope of his office, because he knew he needed actual evidence of guilt to prosecute–so he erred in making it up.
Corey acts outside the scope of her office in not understanding that she needs actual evidence of guilt, and she has none. Zimmerman could be a Hispanic member of the KKK (who is coincidentally a registered Democrat who is active in lefty political efforts and defends black youths against police who beat them, sure, right). Everything Corey has alleged to be Zimmerman’s state of mind could be true, and all the physical evidence and bulk of witness testimony (all eyewitness testimony and that from witnesses without serious impeachability) points to Zimmerman having killed Martin while Martin was beating Zimmerman unlawfully and putting Zimmerman in reasonable fear of his life. She has no case, and errs acting outside the scope of her office in bringing charges.
She should be disbarred.
tom, you mistake me.
You have no FACTUAL basis for your bulls[it.
See?
You also don’t know your asp from a hole in the ground regard the law.
See, too?
All you’ve got is your brokedik, highly impassioned opinion. Which is worthless.
Well then Rags, put up or shut up.
What is the evidence Of George Zimmerman’s guilt.
Got any? Neither does Corey.
Ms. Corey to date matches the template of someone hoping to use a high-profile case to further her political career. I do not trust her to in any way, shape, or form not crush the little guy if it means she can profit. Have a nice day.
Oh please God…..stop sniveling and remove it…I bet you don’t have the balls…
Hey, I need the Corey supporters to help me out here. On the indictment sheet, evidence and accusation-wise–what is and is not required BY LAW?
Because, you know, there’s been a lot of discussion about that by real lawyer types not looking at what kind of future CNN or MSNBC gig they could get, or what office they might be good for.
Just asking.
Fair question.
Not much at all.
Dershowitz was WRONG.
http://viewfromll2.com/2012/04/29/why-alan-dershowitz-is-completely-wrong-about-the-zimmerman-case/
That will give you a very good grounding in WHY the Dersh was talking out his butt.
Here is a thought question: a writ of mandamus is a means of compelling a lower court to do something it is required by law to do. It is addressed to an appellate court.
Why has NOBODY…in all of FLORIDA…filed a writ addressing the Corey charging instrument IF it was an affront to Florida law?
“Why no Writ of Marandamus?”
No profit for those who are in a position to file.
No standing to file?
O’Mara is not a dunce. Neither is his co-counsel.
Do you suggest they don’t have a phone? Email? A fax machine?
Please…
First, I agree with you. Political points are more compelling if made with ALL CAPS. Why, they reek of logic so strong any bystanders would immediately agree with your point…
Second, to answer your question of “why”–well, I would say political correctness and the atmosphere akin to the lynch mob are probably sufficient reasons.
I speak and write EMPHATICALLY.
If that hurts your eyes or some damn thing, put on some shades, sis.
And a gentleman of refinement to boot! I bow my head in your direction, sir, and will argue no more, for you have truly won the day with your last. Who could contest such? And thus I no longer try.
Whatever his virtues in some other aspect of life, clearly the ragpicker would leave this one alone. Too rotten.
No one seems to be addressing why this ‘evidence’ that has no bearing on the case was being collected in the first place?Because it was being investigated as a potential hate crime? A civil rights violation? Everyone knows there is a double standard in this respect. It is despicable. It is unAmerican.
You would have to be an idiot not to recognize the government’s zeal in this case as transparently political. Ragspierre is just a liberal hack trying to make a name for himself by annoying conservative bloggers; he’s/she’s like the insecure, unpopular kid in high school that has to argue with everyone just to get attention. Don’t let him get to you; ignore him/her and maybe it will go away.