William A. Jacobson:
In early April 2012, Special Prosecutor Angela Corey decided not to take the George Zimmerman case to a Grand Jury, opting for the filing of a Criminal Information which then was presented along with an Affidavit of Probable Cause. The Court found probable cause for the charges.
It turned out, once pre-trial discovery was exchanged, that the affidavit upon which probable cause was found had not disclosed a lot of significant exculpatory details. There was no mention of the significant injuries to Zimmerman, or of John Good’s eyewitness account that Martin was on top of Zimmerman hitting him Mixed Martial Arts style. All the Affidavit said on the subject of the physical confrontation was that there was “a struggle.”
The Affidavit identified the voice screaming for help as that of Martin based on an interview with his mother, but did not reveal what we now know, that Martin’s father initially denied it was his son.
The Affidavit also was inaccurate, such as alleging that the 911 operator “instructed Zimmerman not” to follow Martin — a false fact which lives on in the media mythology of the case.
The judge should also be investigated for her part in trying to get a guilty verdict.
The judge should be recalled. She is a disgrace.
As seen at MOTUS
buzzsawmonkey • 2 hours ago
I wonder if that TV station that got the names of the Korean Air pilots wrong has noticed that the anti-Zimmerman-verdict protests are being organized by Lynn Ching-Faevre, Ray Sizzum, Vin Janss, Tim Foyle-Hatt and Morgan Cantrolle?