July 5, 2012 - 9:11 am
A Sanford judge today ordered George Zimmerman, the Neighborhood Watch volunteer who shot and killed Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old, released on $1 million bail but called him a manipulator.
It was not immediately clear how long it would take the 28-year-old Zimmerman to arrange his release.
Defense attorney Mark O’Mara said Friday that Zimmerman’s legal defense fund had a balance of $211,000, more than enough to cover the 10-percent non-refundable portion charged by most bonding companies.
WHAT a Case of In-justice due to loud mouthed crap weasels screaming Racism – Does the US Main Media not have any SHAME in what they do? crap weasels one and ALL
I’m confused. Now that the judge knows how much he has in his defense fund, why didn’t the judge just raise the bail so that Zimmerman could only afford a public defender? Wasn’t that the point of this in the first place?
This whole thing has gone so far off the rails it’s amazing. The one thing that fascinates me is that the Latino community has been pretty silent on how the guy has been convicted essentially without a trial, and certainly without full disclosure of the evidence. Originally I was saying that it appearred that the cops didn’t do a complete investigation, and I still feel that they dropped the ball, in that they failed to inform Martin’s family as promptly as possible as to his death; but that aside, they did a pretty thorough investigation, even subjecting Zimmerman to a polygraph (with his assent) which he passed.
One thing the media has assured by covering this in such a skewed fashion, though: they’re getting a lot of viewers, and their ratings and copies sold and so forth have no doubt increased…