Zimmerman wants to delay trial for Martin shooting

[alp227]

Source: AP

Attorneys for the former neighborhood watch volunteer charged with shooting Trayvon Martin to death on Wednesday asked for more time to prepare his case, saying prosecutors had been slow to turn over evidence.

At the same time, Zimmerman's lead attorney, Mark O'Mara, renewed his request for donations to George Zimmerman's legal defense, which he said could cost up to $1 million.

"The state has virtually unlimited resources to prosecute George," O'Mara said on Zimmerman's defense fund website. "To finance his defense, however, George relies on the generosity of individuals who believe he is innocent."

Spokesman Shawn Vincent said Zimmerman's attorneys want his second-degree murder trial to be moved from June to November. Zimmerman has pleaded not guilty.

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/01/31/zimmerman-trial/1879607/

[Coolest Ranger]

1. I'm not going to shed a tear over his lying tail

[AtheistCrusader]

2. Of course he wants to delay it.

He knows he's fucked.

[HockeyMom]

3. Afraid?

There is a bill in Florida legistature to repeal Stand Your Ground. GUESS what Party Rep sponsored this?

[frylock]

4. they need more time to get more money..

I would imagine most of the pro-Zimmerman folks are flat busted after blowing any extra cash on AR-15s last month.

[JDPriestly]

5. Looks like O'Mara doesn't want to break the bad news to his client, Zimmerman.

Oh, dear! Zimmerman's case must be worse than even I thought. He is hoping that witnesses' memories will be dimmed. This is not justice for the Martin family.

Zimmerman should just plead to a lesser charge and be done with it.

[Shrike47]

6. Sure sounds like time for fund-raising to me.

This is not a case with endless amounts of evidence. Should take less than a week to try (but I bet it won't; got to waste a lot of time basking in the media spotlight).

[Judi Lynn]

7. If he doesn't have enough donations, why wouldn't he accept the "court-appointed" attorney?

Isn't that the OTHER choice offered?

Otherwise, he could postpone his trial indefinitely, claiming he's waiting on additional contributions to his defense fund.

[bettyellen]

31. and this attorney offered to do it pro bono.....when he found out his client had loads of donations

he was hiding from both himself and the court, he decided to start billing him.

[Hekate]

8. Let public memories fade.....

Let this murder be buried beneath the news of the hundreds and hundreds of others happening all around us.

I need an anti-nausea pill.

[Blue_Tires]

13. Yeah, I predicted they were going to stall this as long as possible

and then probably do a plea deal...

[Boabab]

23. Why should the prosecution agree to a plea?

[Ash_F]

24. Because they want to go easy on him

Read about the case.

[pacalo]

15. They're afraid of the growing disgust toward the gun culture.

[Hekate]

16. If I were they, I'd be afraid of that too

I think there's a lot less sympathy toward those ALEC-written laws than there was before. Or at least I hope so.

[pacalo]

18. Surely the judge sees what the motivation is; at this point there will never be enough time for

public opinion to soften on gun-happy attitudes. No point in delaying the inevitable. Right is right & wrong is wrong; getting more time isn't going to change that.

[davidpdx]

21. I had the same thought when I read this

It has already been a year and I'm betting they are going to try to push it for two. I can't remember if he is in custody or not.

[2naSalit]

27. I think he's home enjoying his isolation in style

and the judge might be friends with his daddy, the retired judge, and for more evidence to find it's way to "lost" perhaps? I don't trust much of what passes for a judicial system there. It would make me feel differently if he got what's really due him and soon. The answer to the delay should be "Hell no!" For all the reasons mentioned above on this thread.

[davidpdx]

29. That's what I thought too

I had lost track of what was going on since it's been dragged out. All the shootings late last year and early this year along with the election. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if the guy is acquitted. He'll be put in the same category as OJ, Drew Peterson, Scott Peterson, and Casey Anthony.

[bongbong]

9. Could be a case of shearing the sheep

The attorneys might be asking for more time just to rack up hours. They might be seeing the amounts of dough being coughed up by the reich-wing sheep to ZimmerMurderer's "defense fund", and want their cut.

[SoapBox]

10. Fuck this killer...

his ass belongs in jail for MURDER.

[Angry Dragon]

11. O'Mara could go pro bono

[ZombieHorde]

12. Situations like this make think not having private defense attorneys is a good idea.

The existence of private defense attorneys is in opposition to the abstract concept of justice, in my opinion. The more money one has, the better and more defense attorneys one can afford, the better and more defense attorneys one has, the more likely one is to be found innocent.

Justice is supposed to be blind, but the existence private defense attorneys removes her blindfold.

[Blue_Tires]

14. Where is the comment from our pro-Zimmerman contingent on DU?

I haven't seen any of them for awhile, and there's *always* at least one...

[Ash_F]

25. They are still here...

They just moved on to more fashionable racist right wing nuttery.

[yardwork]

32. Some have been banned recently by Admin after their OTT defense of guns and gun violence.

Whatever it takes, I say.

[AndyTiedye]

17. Relying on the "Generosity" of Those Who Want it to be Open Season on Minorities

Not enough of them, you say?

[HeiressofBickworth]

19. Justice delayed

is justice denied -- just my opinion.

[DonCoquixote]

20. I am so sure this has NOTHING

to do with the 2014 elections, right?

I bet Rick Scott pardons this asshole to appeal to the white sheet brigade, of which Florida has a LOT of.

[Boabab]

22. I get nauseous everytime I see this killer's name in the media

Stop the delays, get the trial over with, and then throw him in in jail.

This travesty has gone on long enough.

[bluestateguy]

26. Can't he just take responsibility for what he did and plead guilty?

And spare the Martin family the agony of a trial.

[Politicalboi]

28. Didn't the cops

Kind of screw things up too? They weren't thorough enough IMO of the case. Almost like the JonBenét case where they let people over the house before the body was found. Her father found her in the cellar even though the police had been at the house for some time. I think the prosecution doesn't mind the delay.

[Shilo]

30. I hope they get no futher delays or money for this slime and his attorneys.

[eggplant]

33. Maybe they are wrangling for a change of venue to Steubenville. n/t