George Zimmerman’s bond set for $150,000
As part of the conditions of his release, Judge Kenneth Lester instructed that Zimmerman not be allowed to possess firearms of any kind, nor can he use alcohol or have any contact with the Martin family. The judge imposed a curfew from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. on Zimmerman and said he should be fitted with a GPS monitoring device. He said that if Zimmerman and his attorney can work it out with the sheriff’s department, he had no objection to Zimmerman residing out of state before the trial begins.
Zimmerman took the stand before the ruling, telling Trayvon Martin’s parents he was sorry they lost their child.
“I didn’t know how old he was,” said Zimmerman. “I didn’t know if he was armed.”
When asked why he had waited so long to tell the victim’s father and mother he was sorry, Zimmerman said, “I was told not to communicate with them.”
Oh and if you missed it, there was a photo taken on the crime scene of Mr. Zimmerman’s head.
If that is blunt force trauma, that’s pretty severe. The more I see from this case, the more it appears that Zimmerman did indeed act in self defense, and that the anti-rights people are defending a violent assault.
No guns a curfew and a tracking collar, are they trying to make sure he doesn’t survive to stand trial?
They are allowing him to leave the state, also his lawyer has said he has MULTIPLE safe-houses set aside for Mr. Zimmerman.
Yeah its not awesome (tho I believe awaiting trial for a Felony charge does indeed make you a prohibited person, no matter who you are, and rightfully so, as the courts are saying he COULD very well be a murderer, no matter how thin that accusation is at this moment) because he isn’t restricted to Florida he’s a needle hiding in a VERY big haystack.
The REAL challenge will be once he’s found not-guilty and released as a free man. That’s when the REAL danger will begin…and at least he’ll be armed.
Could you imagine the media shitstorm if he had to defend himself later?
“George Zimmerman KILLS AGAIN!!!”
It could be as clear as shooting a guy breaking through his window, wearing a mask, a gun in one hand, and a printouts of the 10K NBB bounty and a Spike Lee tweet with his current address…
I have been reserving my judgment to see what evidence the prosecution has, but now that they have played their hand with the affidavit and bond trial, I am pretty convinced he is an innocent man. Should the judge go so far as to throw the trial out, it basically means the SPD was right all along. What a mess.
If that happens, let’s hope that judge carries a gun.
There still could be some crazy smoking gun that hasn’t been released yet from the Prosecution.
Still there is such a wealth of evidence that shows that Zimmerman was a man of VERY good character and background, and I’m sure the defense has a LOT more hold-cards of stuff about Martin that would make him look very bad….its very possible many of those details will be kept under wraps simply because this boy DID lose his life, and if it isn’t necessary to dismiss all charges, why urinate on his grave.
But really the evidence corroborates Zimmerman’s story so consistently, that he’s either some evil mastermind who orchestrated this whole thing…or he was actually attacked, and nearly killed it appears, my Martin before he shot, when nobody came to his cries for help.
After 4 hours of SPD questioning, they didn’t see any reason to charge him. Further NO allegations of misconduct or unprofessional behavior have been alleged.
This is obviously 100% political. Yep a mess!
It’s illegal in the state of Florida to have access to firearms while you are awaiting trial for a Felony charge. Has been for as long as I remember. As I understand, the GPS device is also fairly standard in a case like this. I don’t know about the curfew, but it’s probably not that unusual. So, all in all, he probably got “the standard” treatment from the judge.
I live in the area (about 30 minutes away from Sanford) and things seem to have died down considerably in spite of the race baiters and shit stirrers. Almost to a point that I think if Zimmerman if found not guilty there might not even be violence over it (not holding my breath though).
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I hope you’re right on the riots and violence.
Its my understanding that you are correct that people awaiting criminal trial are prohibited people.
Isn’t Federal law similar? I seem to remember a question on the 4473 form about whether or not you’re under indictment for a felony.
Heh…I should have read down further…
Right from the 4473:
… Furthermore, section 922 prohibits the shipment, transportation, or receipt in or affecting interstate commerce of a firearm by one is under indictment or information for a felon[.]
Let’s hope there is actual justice done here rather than media hysterics.
Just from a different point of view. The picture was taken within 5 minutes of the Police arriving, correct? But 40 minutes later, as he comes to the Police Station, and we see the back of his head, you can’t see the Blood. So that tells me that SOMEONE after the First Picture was taken and the Video at the Police Station treated his Wounds. So THAT person needs to be Summoned to Testify and explain just how badly Zimmerman was hurt. But since it occurred to the back of his head, and it looks like stuff you see when someone is smashing your head on the Concrete (speaking from personal experience), this doesn’t look good for Al Sharpton.
to Testify and explain just how badly Zimmerman was hurt.
It doesn’t matter how bad he was hurt, but how bad he believed he was hurt. The same would hold true if someone pulled a fake handgun during a robbery. It doesn’t matter how much danger a person is in, but how much danger a person believes he is in. This is why armed robbery only requires that the robber insinuates that he has a weapon, instead of actually having a weapon.
Head being ground into the sidewalk by a man who’s on top ought to be enough. I think of myself as a reasonable person (no snickering!), and if that’s the account, backed by evidence, I’d have to see a lot of evidence that would refute the claim of self defense.
Unless there was a rock or other sharp object on the ground, the gash on the right-hand-side of his head looks REALLY bad for a blunt-force trauma wound.
I’ve seen people take a hit to the melon where only a little, or no blood at all was drawn and they went down like a ton of bricks.
To split the scalp like that is no damn joke!
Yes, it was in the Police report that the EMTs checked Zimmerman over. I would think that being a head wound, they would have at least cleaned it up enough to make sure that it wasn’t more serious.
I have read (since I didn’t get to see it, gotta work sometime) that one of the many things that were brought up in the bail hearing was the fact that the EMTs didn’t think it was necessesary to take Zimmerman into the hospital. I guess the prosecutor thinks that one must actually GET one’s brains bashed out in order to qualify for being in imminent danger of getting one’s brains bashed out.
What sickens me is that this case seems to be being prosecuted by a dingbat, and if/when Zimmerman does walk away a free man, a whole bunch of people are going to be told by the (fucktard anti-gun) media that it is because of Stand Your Ground. NO, it will be because the prosecution couldn’t make their case, and wouldn’t have been any better able to make their case before Stand Your Ground. Stand Your Ground is a GOOD law. All it does is keep people from being arrested when there is NO PROBABLE CAUSE to arrest them in the first place. Why would you want to arrest someone without probable cause unless you are a statist asshole?
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Yep, I can hear their cries now. If Zimmerman’s statement is true, that is justified self-defense in all 50 states. You are not “standing your ground” when you are on your back, in a prone position with someone pinning you down. Duty to retreat has been met. You don’t have to “reasonable believe” your life is in danger when the assailant is actually in the process of inflicting deadly (or grave bodily injury) force on you by smashing your head into the concrete. Is it not about “feeling threatened”- you ARE threatened!
I keep thinking about how different this case would look if Zimmerman never called 911. Let’s say everything occurred the same way, except he never made that call, never said “he looks black”, never said something inaudible for everyone to guess what it was, and there was no “we don’t need you to do that”. Of course, this behavior would be much closer to the loose-cannon vigilante that he is being portrayed as, since he took it upon himself to stop a “burglar” instead of calling the police. But without those tapes, all the police have is guy with a bloody head who was walking around in his own neighborhood, witnesses who saw Martin on top of him, and a dead teen. There is probably no arrest, and no media attention. This whole mess is because of assumptions of his character stemming from the 911 call. Just like anyone who goes out partying when their child is missing must have killed her- because none of us would do that.
I think it would be worse, because reasonable people can hear how calm Zimmerman was, and that he never got out of breath when he was “following” Martin.
Without that call it COULD be claimed Zimmerman was agitated, spewing racist slurs, and a heated foot-chase happened before Zimmerman tackled martin from behind.
No evidence of that? Evidence be damned, where are the skittles and tea? Where’s the video of Martin buying the snacks? That’s all fabrication as well, and nobody questions it.
Without the tape, they can say whatever they want, and if the Big Lie is repeated often enough, it becomes true…like the Skittles.
I believe they do have video footage of Martin purchasing tea and Skittles at the 7-11.
Got a link to the video, stills, or at least timestamps from an official source?
No link, but I thought I heard its existence mentioned during the latest hearing.
Still wonderin (based on someone’s post) … the story I remember is that Treyvon went to a 7-11 during halftime of some game.
How far of a walk is that? Is there video -or- register evidence of this?
… and oh, by the way … who gives a crap because the police admitted that they have no evidence that disproves George’s self defense claim.
not 100% of the area but google maps and 7-Eleven store locator says its over two miles much of all the near locations are along a highway, Seems a bit of a hike for an Ice Tea given that all the map calculations are around 5 miles round trip, and this was in the evening and in the rain.
Also note that there is no timestamp or Video footage of Martin buying food at the store, nor do they give an address of the store. We know what time Zimmerman called the police, as well as the neighborhood 911 calls, we know Martin’s time of death.
Yet we don’t know when he bought these alleged snacks, despite the fact that all 7-Elevens have store surveillance, as well as registers that record all sales.
I suspect the reason for such an odd story, as well as the lack of any hard evidence is that A) It was made up. the family PR firm cooked up a specific story of a VERY innocent task…walking to the store to buy candy. Something we’ve all done since we were VERY young, which dovetails VERY nicely with the photos of Martin as a per-pubecent smiling boy, rather than the tattoo’d young “gangsta” he was at the time of his death.
or B) This was a story presented by Martin to cover for why he was getting out of the house. Possibly to sneak away to do drugs which he had a history of, and would explain why his behavior was so strange that night (such as running away from Zimmerman who was still seated in his car…but for some reason going back TO Zimmerman to confront him, rather than continuing to run home which was VERY close at the time.)
I will be VERY surprised if a 7-Eleven or Skittles has ANYTHING to do with this case at all.
Here is the excerpt when the prosecution states they have documented evidence of a 7-11 visit:
DE LA RIONDA: And isn’t it a fact to prove that and you have verified that he actually went to that 7-Eleven store and bought some Skittles and a can of tea? Did he not?
GILBREATH: Yes.
DE LA RIONDA: And there’s a video of that?
GILBREATH: Correct.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1204/20/cnr.02.html
Cool thanks, this is the first I’ve heard of it!
I stand corrected.