17 year old kid shot dead by Neighborhood Watch "Captain"

[CarmelHP]

If Zimmerman believed in the benefit of the doubt, I'd have 505 fewer posts.

Or if you believed in it.

 

[CarmelHP]

Stats for this thread:

User Name Posts hornadylnl 505

That doesn't count the 3500 replies from arguments he started or fanned the flames of.

 

[Blackhawk2001]

And if our government could arrest people before they committed crimes (Minority Report), there'd be no crime.

And if wishes were horses we'd all have a ride. Neither your statement nor mine happen to be the case.

 

[ryknoll3]

Question.

Would this business with his bond hearing and the alleged covering of his assets be at all admissible in the actual trial of the shooting?

 

[CarmelHP]

Question.

Would this business with his bond hearing and the alleged covering of his assets be at all admissible in the actual trial of the shooting?

Possibly for purposes of impeachment if Zimmerman were to testify. Otherwise, I doubt it.

 

[Bunnykid68]

Question.

Would this business with his bond hearing and the alleged covering of his assets be at all admissible in the actual trial of the shooting?

Does it matter if it is? The whole country knows about it.

 

[Timjoebillybob]

Not in Indiana, Florida law may be different. But I doubt it is allowed there either.

It's admissible in IN if both parties and the judge agree to allow it. So it is, but it virtually never happens.

In FL I believe it's about the same but not positive.

 

[hornadylnl]

George Zimmerman's bond set at $1 million - latimes.com

The couple also discussed Zimmerman’s second passport, stashed in his safe deposit box, which -- coupled with the cash -- would let the couple flee the country if necessary, prosecutors said.

“The defendant is manipulating the system to his own benefit,” Lester wrote in Thursday's decision. “Notably, together with the passport, the money only had to be hidden for a short time for him to leave the country.”

I always thought the second passport was suspicious. Now it's being said that Zimmerman and his wife discussed the passport while he was in jail?

 

[terrehautian]

If he had that cash and second passport, why wouldn't he have fled? Obviously, he isn't a flight risk, because he would have already fled.

 

[hornadylnl]

If he had that cash and second passport, why wouldn't he have fled? Obviously, he isn't a flight risk, because he would have already fled.

Conspiring to hide $150,000+ and hiding a passport don't indicate a desire to leave the country?

 

[strahd71]

Conspiring to hide $150,000+ and hiding a passport don't indicate a desire to leave the country?

nope just privacy isnt it

jake

 

[Kutnupe14]

nope just privacy isnt it

jake

Not according to law. Hiding one's income is a very serious crime.

 

[strahd71]

Not according to law. Hiding one's income is a very serious crime.

that may be but then again its just one more government intrusion

jake

 

[hornadylnl]

that may be but then again its just one more government intrusion

jake

You do understand the purpose of setting bond don't you?

 

[terrehautian]

Looking at his income loss over not being able to work, his wifes income loss not being able to work, housing costs, food costs, utilities of housing (since you won't be able to live where you were living), and huge lawyer fees, don't you think 150k is going to be a drop in the bucket..... Like I said, if he was planning to leave the country when he wasn't in jail, HE WOULD BE GONE.

 

[strahd71]

You do understand the purpose of setting bond don't you?

of course i just dont understand why two months or how ever long he was arrested finally. if he was safe enough to be out then shouldnt he be safe enough now?

jake

 

[Blackhawk2001]

Conspiring to hide $150,000+ and hiding a passport don't indicate a desire to leave the country?

So, you've had an unlawful "bounty" placed on you for the "crime" of shooting someone in self-defense (as you see it) and the law has done NOTHING to protect you from that threat, but is pursuing you instead. You've raised money for your legal defense, but there's still that nagging question: is the legal and law enforcement system going to let me get lynched before I get to trial? I'd want the resources for a backup plan, but that doesn't mean I'd run unless my life was in jeopardy.

 

[Kutnupe14]

Looking at his income loss over not being able to work, his wifes income loss not being able to work, housing costs, food costs, utilities of housing (since you won't be able to live where you were living), and huge lawyer fees, don't you think 150k is going to be a drop in the bucket..... Like I said, if he was planning to leave the country when he wasn't in jail, HE WOULD BE GONE.

I thought he was unemployed?

 

[terrehautian]

I was just going on that he had a job before then, I have no idea. I doubt his wife is working though either, so they have no income other then money given to them. That won't last long in a court case.

 

[Hookeye]

He can probably get a security gig in Broad Ripple