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In reply to the discussion: Oh Noes...the 'story' of the Zimmerman crash is falling apart at the seams.. [View all]calimary
(81,238 posts)Obviously he's either still on the case voluntarily because he sees a need to keep defending his precious Georgie, or somebody else does and is bankrolling him (or maybe it's somebodies) to retain his services because they fear "the job isn't finished." O'Mara is obviously trying to seal the deal in the public perception. Perhaps he anticipates another trial, a civil action or something, and he's trying to stack the deck in advance - any way he can to influence the public perception of his seriously damaged and compromised client, and somehow try to turn him into some Captain America type.
One way or another he appears to have concluded that this isn't over, and his services are still needed, and he still has work to do to rehabilitate his client in the public eye. Why? Because the reaction from coast-to-coast has NOT been favorable, and a large swath of the public watching the trial was not swayed by his fancy arguments and cardboard cutouts and histrionics with a slab of concrete and a bunch of hardly-unbiased witnesses who waxed nearly poetic about dear sweet innocent "Georgie." Maybe muddying the waters of a second potential jury pool - so it can then be claimed that poor dear sweet innocent "Georgie" can't get a fair trial and, well, there's just no reason to proceed...
Only problem with that, it would seem, is that the trial of public opinion will then be the last word. The hatred of this monster, across the country, and the knowledge MANY of us are left with - STANDS: that he got away with killing an unarmed kid after stalking him and picking a fight with him, having prejudged and racially profiled him in his own cock-eyed paranoid racist mind (note that he never said anything like "these fucking crackers, they always get away" and anointed himself judge/jury/executioner, taking the law into his own hands. And with no badge and no formal deputizing from any legitimate law enforcement organization. There are many of us, myself included, who don't give a rat's ass whether "Georgie" single-handedly saves the whole world and personally finds a cure for cancer and a solution to the national deficit in the next year-and-a-half. He still was allowed to get away with a rather cold-blooded MURDER.