Florida law enforcement, from the local police to the special
prosecutor overseeing the Trayvon Martin case, did not want to see
George Zimmerman convicted of murder and deliberately threw away the
case, allowing their prosecution to crumble. A growing chorus of
attorneys and analysts who know jury trials and courtroom procedure say
this is the inescapable conclusion to be drawn from the parade of
otherwise incoherent missteps by George Zimmerman’s prosecutors.
“I find it personally difficult to believe it was not thrown,” said
Warren Ingber, a New York-based attorney who has practiced law for
decades. “I am far from alone in this assessment, and it reveals even
harder truth why this case was a miscarriage of justice.”
Ingber detailed his reasons in a letter sent to a NPR’s "Left, Right and Center" program after its liberal analysts would not touch that possibility. But there’s been a growing chorus saying the Zimmerman prosecution was not merely incompetent, but going through the motions and intentionally losing. This includes Florida talk radio host Randi Rhodes, who covered the trial daily, to New Orleans Times-Picayune editorial writer Jarvis DeBerry whose source canvassed 20 local prosecutors, to celebrity lawyers like Alan Dershowitz and other legal analysts, and longtime lawyers like Ingber who was indignant at NPR’s commentators ceding too much ground to right-wingers.
Here are 10 key points the lawyers in these reports cite behind this conclusion.
Read on...
Ingber detailed his reasons in a letter sent to a NPR’s "Left, Right and Center" program after its liberal analysts would not touch that possibility. But there’s been a growing chorus saying the Zimmerman prosecution was not merely incompetent, but going through the motions and intentionally losing. This includes Florida talk radio host Randi Rhodes, who covered the trial daily, to New Orleans Times-Picayune editorial writer Jarvis DeBerry whose source canvassed 20 local prosecutors, to celebrity lawyers like Alan Dershowitz and other legal analysts, and longtime lawyers like Ingber who was indignant at NPR’s commentators ceding too much ground to right-wingers.
Here are 10 key points the lawyers in these reports cite behind this conclusion.
Read on...
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