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发帖数: 29846 | 1 by Rick aka Mr. Brutally Honest
This whole thing has been a charade from the beginning, a tragic farce:
George Zimmerman's attorneys on Monday formally accused prosecutors of
being unethical, saying that Zimmermanfor seven months, they hid a pair of
lies by their most important witness, and that they should be punished for
it.
The allegations, spelled out in a new court pleading, mark a new low in
the case.
Defense attorneys Mark O'Mara and Don West have complained for months
about Assistant State Attorneys Bernie de la Rionda and John Guy, saying
they have refused repeated requests to turn over key pieces of evidence.
This time, they've asked Circuit Judge Debra S. Nelson to fine and admonish
them.
Prosecutors are required to release in a timely fashion information to a
suspect if it might help prove his innocence. In this case, according to
paperwork filed by O'Mara, de la Rionda and Guy have flouted that rule.
For seven months, they knew that the state's most important witness, a
young Miami woman who was on the phone with TrayvonMartin just moments
before he was shot, had lied about going to a hospital a few days later,
according to the new paperwork.
De la Rionda learned the truth during an August 2 interview with her, O'
Mara wrote, but although defense attorneys had asked de la Rionda and Guy's
office for months about that fact and for records to support her claim, they
did not disclose it until March 4.
They also hid for six months that she had lied when she claimed to be 16
, something she told Benjamin Crump, an attorney for Trayvon's family, in a
recorded interview March 19, 2012.
She was 18 at the time and is 19 now.
In the new paperwork, defense attorneys also complained that de la
Rionda and Guy mislead the judge and them at an Oct. 26 hearing when they
claimed they had turned over all reports generated by the FBI and Florida
Department of Law Enforcement.
Two weeks later, they surrendered 45 more, according to the pleading.
Those things were That was unethical and cost defense attorneys an
enormous amount of time, as they tried to track down the truth, O'Mara wrote.
He asked the judge to order prosecutors to pay for all the hours defense
attorneys have spent trying to prove what they should have disclosed. O'
Mara did not offer that dollar figure but said he'd have it ready for an
April 2 hearing.
De la Rionda's and Guy's office did not have an immediate response
Monday evening.
Someone needs to kick this circus out of town and George Zimmerman allowed
to resume what's left of his life. | D*******o
发帖数: 3229 | 2 我也一直在关心这个案子。估计它会成为一个旷日持久的世纪大案，控辩双方会经过屡
次的上诉，中间还会夹杂着黑人团体的抗议游行，甚至暴动。这将是对美国司法公正的
一次考验。 |
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