well as long as you agree that your premise is wrong I guess there is no debate.
It’s so cute to watch you argue with yourself. I’ll bet you hardly ever lose.
Your premise is that Zimmerman is not a fool? Your premise is that Zimmerman act according to his lawyer’s advice?
There is pretty strong evidence against both of those.
You’re arguing that he would fall for a foolish attempt at leverage so you’re agreeing with me that there is no leverage.
There’s no question in my mind that Shellie Zimmerman’s answers under both direct and cross-examination were misleading and perjurious:
“Any financial means” is an extremely broad term. Ms. Zimmerman was well aware of large amounts of money. She denied being aware of “any financial means” which could go towards a bond cost.
Do you have an opinion on whether the prosecution will try to use the charge against her as leverage in a plea bargain with George?
They should not.
But I don’t know enough about the players involved to say whether they will or won’t. Theoretically, her offense is her offense; the state should not premise a deal for her on a deal on a completely unrelated crime for someone else.
So I have no opinion.
CASE 16-2011-CF-004612, State Versus Eric Randall, Angela Corey gave the defendant a choice 25 years for aggravated assault, with a deadly weapon, as claimed by an ex-girlfriend, but never proven beyond her word. He took the plea bargain. 90 days in jail, suspended. Don’t know about Corey.
What’s the expected sentence for perjury.
If this is all true, I can’t say it surprises me. It supports my hunch that Zimmerman isn’t so broken up about his wife being in trouble that he’d cop a plea to save her.
There’s very little teeth in the perjury charge. There’s nothing to be gained by pleading to a homicide and everything to lose.
Breaking news (I think)
A judge has ruled that George Zimmerman’s statements to police will be released to the public – apparently they are not unduly prejudicial. This may be good news for the defense. I believe this is a ruling on the motion Larry Mudd referenced upthread – prosecution has argued that the statements can be considered confessional in nature. It may be that the judge does not agree with that. Also to be released – crime scene photos, test results(?), and the recordings of Zimmerman’s calls from his cell.
Actually, let me take that back a step. The Fox story – the only one I’ve found about this ruling, has judge Lester saying “may” or “can” be released, not “shall” or will". So I dunno maybe there’s one or more additional hoops to jump through before any of these releases happen.
I don’t think there are any more hoops. If the judge says they can be released, and the Florida law says they must be released unless the judge says they can’t - that means they will be released.
OK, I found a CNN story confirming the Fox one, but asserting positively that the information WILL be released. And it will include the autopsy report, for the more macabre minded among us.
Don’t you just love how all of Zimmerman’s problems–including his wife being charged with perjury–are all Al Sharpton’s fault?
I guess the text messages stay sealed?
As a reminder (thank you Larry Mudd), here is the motion from the prosecution that the judge ruled on. The defense filed a similar motion to keep the evidence sealed, no doubt for different reasons.
According to the news stories, about the only things to be held back are the names and addresses of witnesses. So far, I haven’t found any links to the actual text of the decision.
At the last evidence release, didn’t the judge say there was exculpatory evidence in there? Should be interesting.