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I don't think it was on purpose by the prosecutor or her team. Perhaps there is a rogue individual, but judges come down very hard on errors like this. If it was intentional, the consequence could be very significant.

Robert - I hope you are right. When dealing with the volumes of material and determining what must be disclosed and what does not, such mistakes. However, given that what was disclosed either strengthens the public support for the case (photo of the victim face down) or makes the accused look worse (a cop wanna be who can pass basic classes) ......


My natural response is to usually give the benefit of the doubt, but I have seen too much of this type of crap done intentionally to really think it was by mistake.

In my circle of gun toting friends, they believe that Zim stepped out of the protection of Stand Your Ground, when he got out of the car, and I am the only lib in the bunch.

Nice, he was told to stay in his car. Calling a bunch of righties pole smokers, priceless.

Wow, i got that wrong. Just to be clear, I own, shoot and endorse SYG, but know that its purpose is in protecting the gun owners rights and safety. Also know that you can cross the line and fall outside its protection. Hopefully George didnt.

It's also a mechanism to undermine Obama and Romney. It is a great tactic because you can be very selective which ones to believe.

In here the anti Obama false rumors are generally accepted as facts. Over in the rainbow unicorn with a ball gag forum that jade and wheel hook up in its the anti Romney false rumors that are accepted as fact.

Of course wheel still hasn't come out of the closet so he accepts all of them as fact depending on if he feels like giving someone a bj or feels more like trying to convince us he is tall and hetero and wasn't blackmailed by his false flag wife into buying her tits.

The end.

You think? Nah, I think they'll let him go after a smack on the wrist.
...and I'm sure they're planning the riots already.

Yes...and let's put ourselves right in the middle of a situation...where the office of the Presidency doesn't belong...AGAIN!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAPtUfOs7Gs

That's the one Papa...he has to make racial statements....less you forget the guilt you're supposed to carry! Where the Kenyan King crapped the bed was the entire "Beer Summit"...injecting the most powerful man on the planet with some little police investigation was a real stretch.

Yeah...that's NOT Presidential!

Thanks Robert for posting the transcript. I wasn't going to waste my time because I don't even believe DWD's B.S. statement about his "right wing" friends.

I made a joke because I know he is just trying to get some steet cred with his claims. Lmao....

Just because you were hanging drywall at an indoor shooting range...doesn't give you membership or friends there!


KNOW YOUR ROLE...SHUT YOUR HOLE!

George Zimmerman's lawyer: George is nearly broke, wants public to pay his legal costs


7:12 p.m. EST, August 13, 2012|
By Rene Stutzman and Jeff Weiner, Orlando Sentinel



Murder suspect George Zimmerman, whose plight prompted thousands of well-wishers to donate a flood of money — more than a collective $250,000 — is nearly broke, his lawyer said Monday, and plans to ask the public to pay for his defense.

"He really has to live as a hermit, unfortunately," said Mark O'Mara. "He's not doing well. He's getting by."

His legal-defense fund, which once hovered around $210,000, now has a balance of $50,000, O'Mara said Monday, with about $20,000 in outstanding bills.

Zimmerman and his wife, Shellie, are out of work, living in hiding in Seminole County, and spending a great deal of money on security because they fear for their lives, O'Mara said.

"Seminole County is unquestionably the most dangerous county, most expensive county for him to be in," O'Mara said.

He intends to ask the court to declare Zimmerman indigent, an official finding that the 28-year-old Sanford man is broke and needs the public to pay his legal expenses.

Zimmerman also will ask a judge to let him move out of the county, O'Mara said Monday.

"I want him safe. If he's out of state, so be it," O'Mara said.

The request to be declared indigent will be an awkward one, coming from Zimmerman and O'Mara.

In April, they had the same plan. Zimmerman was raking in donations at a rate of $1,000 a day via a website he and his family had set up — although O'Mara didn't know it, he insists.

In a single day, he collected $64,000, according to court records.

Also back then, Zimmerman, from his cell at the Seminole County Jail, was directing his wife to move the money from one account to another, generally in $9,990 chunks.

Zimmerman, a Neighborhood Watch volunteer, is charged with second-degree murder for killing Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black 17-year-old, on a Sanford sidewalk Feb. 26.

Zimmerman says he acted in self-defense, that the Miami Gardens teenager punched him and broke his nose, then got on top of him.

But prosecutors allege that Zimmerman is guilty of racial profiling — that he spotted a black teenager in his neighborhood, suspected he was about to commit a crime, began following him, then murdered him.

O'Mara held a wide-ranging news conference Monday in the front yard of his Orlando law office.

He opened by announcing that earlier in the day, he had filed an appeal challenging a decision by Circuit Judge Kenneth Lester Jr. to stay on the case.

O'Mara wants him out, saying that Zimmerman does not believe he can get a fair trial because in a July 5 bond order, the judge called the defendant a manipulator, saying he helped hide $130,000 from the court during an earlier bond hearing.

But Lester has refused to remove himself from the case. On Monday, O'Mara said he could not let that decision go unchallenged.

The move could delay the case indefinitely.

O'Mara acknowledged Monday that a lack of money has become a problem.

Although the legal-defense fund has raised more than $250,000, those gifts have slowed, he said, and last month's hour-long interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News failed to pump up donations.

"How much have I been paid?" O'Mara said. "Zero."

O'Mara has vowed to represent Zimmerman for free, if need be. An indigency ruling would require the state to pay all other legal expenses — for example, the cost of a private investigator, experts and transcripts.

O'Mara predicted he'd be ready for a "stand your ground" hearing in the case in four to five months.

During that hearing, Zimmerman would try to persuade the judge to throw out the murder charge. To do that, he must show that he killed Trayvon because the teenager attacked him, giving him a well-grounded fear of imminent death or great bodily injury.

"Stand your ground," O'Mara said Monday, is a misnomer because it implies that Zimmerman had the ability to retreat.

He was on his back, had screamed for help for at least 40 seconds and pulled the trigger only after Trayvon pounded his head repeatedly on the ground, O'Mara said.

"He doesn't have an opportunity to retreat if he's on his back," O'Mara said.

wow, this thread is over 800 posts long.

Trayvon has left a legacy after all.

GEORGE ZIMMERMAN,
Petitioner,

v. Case No. 5D12-3198

STATE OF FLORIDA,
Respondent.
________________________________/
Opinion filed August 29, 2012
Petition for Writ of Prohibition
Kenneth R. Lester, Jr., Respondent Judge.
Mark M. O'Mara, of O'Mara Law Group,
Orlando, and Donald R. West, of Don
West Law Group, P.A., Orlando for
Petitioner.
Pamela J. Bondi, Attorney General,
Tallahassee and Pamela J. Koller,
Assistant Attorney General, Daytona
Beach, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM

George Zimmerman petitions for issuance of a writ of prohibition. This is the
proper mechanism for challenging the denial of a motion to disqualify a trial judge. See,
e.g., Lusskin v. State, 717 So. 2d 1076, 1077 (Fla. 4th DCA 1998). Reviewing the
matter de novo, see R.M.C. v. D.C., 77 So. 3d 234, 236 (Fla. 1st DCA 2012), we grant
the petition.

Florida Rule of Judicial Administration 2.330 requires a trial judge to grant a
motion to disqualify without determining the accuracy of the allegations in the motion, so
long as the motion is "legally sufficient." R.M.C., 77 So. 3d at 236. "A motion is legally
sufficient if it alleges facts that would create in a reasonably prudent person a wellfounded
fear of not receiving a fair and impartial trial." Id. (citing MacKenzie v. Super
Kids Bargain Store, Inc., 565 So. 2d 1332 (Fla. 1990)). Although many of the
allegations in Zimmerman's motion, standing alone, do not meet the legal sufficiency
test,1 and while this is admittedly a close call, upon careful review we find that the
allegations, taken together, meet the threshold test of legal sufficiency. Accordingly, we
direct the trial judge to enter an order of disqualification which requests the chief circuit
judge to appoint a successor judge.

PETITION GRANTED.

LAWSON and COHEN, JJ., concur.

EVANDER, J., dissents with opinion.
1 For example, it is well-settled that “adverse judicial rulings do not constitute
sufficient grounds to disqualify a judge.” K.H. v. Dep't of Health & Rehabilitative Servs.,
527 So. 2d 230, 232 (Fla. 1st DCA 1988) (citations omitted).



Case No. 5D12-3198

EVANDER, J., dissenting.
I respectfully dissent. As the majority correctly observes, adverse rulings are not,
in and of themselves, sufficient to require the granting of a motion to disqualify.
Although the trial court’s order clearly manifested an exceedingly strong belief by the
trial judge that Zimmerman had “flouted” and “tried to manipulate” the system, I do not
believe the order “crossed the line” so as to require the granting of his motion

I have not followed the case all that closely, but seems like the right decision.

Court: Zimmerman judge should disqualify himself

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A three-judge panel in Florida has ruled that a former neighborhood watch leader charged in the fatal shooting of teenager Trayvon Martin should be granted a new judge in his case.

Florida's Fifth District Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday that Judge Kenneth Lester should enter a motion to disqualify himself in George Zimmerman's second-degree murder case. Zimmerman's attorney Mark O'Mara asked the court earlier this month to overturn a previous ruling by Lester not to leave the case.

One of the three judges dissented in the ruling.

O'Mara had argued that Lester should disqualify himself after he said the judge made disparaging remarks about Zimmerman's character and advocated for additional charges against him in setting his $1 million bond in July.
Zimmerman remains free on bail. He's pleaded not guilty.


http://news.yahoo.com/court-zimmerman-judge-disqualify-himself-215712493.html


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK62tfoCmuQ

Absolutely the right decision and the trial judge new it to, but this case is very 'political" both in the media and behind the scenes in Chambers.

My bet for next major procedural issue is: Motion to Change Venue. The local well is already poisoned...

OK.
Have a nice day.

what do you think the odds of a change of venue are? Here in Idaho, courts are very reluctant to relocate trials.

I think the odds of a venue change should this go to trial are good. It could be very difficult to get unbiased jurors.

Z got his "burn notice".

Here is an interesting tidbit:

My current part-time secretary graduated from law school several months ago and starts working at the Sanford courthouse as a prosecutor- next Monday. Her office is in the same building as the courtroom. She will be able to sit in on just about all the hearings so long as her work gets done. I am CERTAIN she will learn stuff not published in the media...

Trayvon Martin's school records sought by Zimmerman attorneys

September 7, 2012, 12:50 p.m.

Defense lawyers are seeking the school records of Trayvon Martin, the black teenager shot to death earlier this year by George Zimmerman in a confrontation at a gated community in Florida.

Zimmerman is facing a second-degree murder charge in the celebrated case.

In a post on the defense website, Zimmerman’s lawyers said they have sent subpoenas to schools attended by Martin, 17, who was killed Feb. 26. Zimmerman has maintained that he shot the unarmed Martin in self-defense.

“Our first request is a series of Subpoenas for Production of Documents requesting school records for Trayvon Martin,’’ according to the post by the law firm of Mark O’Mara, who represents Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer. The defense is also seeking posts by Martin on social media sites. Among the documents being sought are school discipline and suspension records.

At the time of the shooting, Martin was under suspension from the Miami-Dade County school system because of traces of marijuana found in his book bag.

Ben Crump, the attorney for the Martin family, denounced the subpoenas as a “witch hunt to try to assault [Martin's] character.”

“None of those things that are being subpoenaed is relevant to why Zimmerman profiled and pursued Trayvon and shot him in the heart,” Crump told the Orlando Sentinel.

Martin had other suspensions as well, including one for defacing a school door. Women’s jewelry and a screwdriver were also found in Martin’s book bag, according to the Miami Herald, but no action was taken for those items, the newspaper said.

How so?