George Zimmermann sues
If this turns out to be true, wow:
The Trayvon Martin case was built on a fraud, with a key witness being swapped out with an imposter when the real witness wouldn’t testify, George Zimmerman said in a lawsuit Wednesday.
The lawsuit says Martin was on the phone with his girlfriend, a vivacious 16-year-old named Brittany Diamond Eugene, when Zimmerman killed him on Feb. 26, 2012. At trial, prosecutors produced the plump, slow-spoken 18-year-old Rachel Jeantel as the girl who had crucial insight into his final moments by being on the phone with him.
The lawsuit says Eugene refused to provide the version of events used to build a narrative of racism at trial, so Jeantel, who reads at a fourth-grade level, was pressured into pretending to be “Diamond.”
The lawsuit seeks $100 million and names both young women as defendants, plus Martin’s parents, who it says were well aware of the swap.
Zimmerman’s lawyer filed the lawsuit in state court in Florida and it also targets the state of Florida and its prosecutors, who allegedly initially falsely told the defense that Martin’s cellphone was too damaged to extract its data, when it actually contained evidence damaging to their case. That includes not only evidence of the witness swap, but also texts showing Martin previously discussing gun sales and bragging of beating up a “snitch” and saying, “He aint bleed nuff 4 me, only his nosez.” Prosecutors also ran out the clock by repeatedly ignoring the defense’s entitlement to exculpatory evidence, the suit says.
Even if it is true (and at this point I have zero idea whether it is or isn’t), the left will say it doesn’t matter. The Trayvon narrative is deeply entrenched at this point.
Here’s more, if you’re interested:
I read an article about the claim of the witness swap. I don’t know, but based on the outrageous nature of the Zimmerman prosecution, abetted by the Justice Department stirring up racist feelings, I’m not inclined to dismiss it out of hand. I followed the trial closely at Legal Insurrection and believe that Zimmerman acted in self-defense based on the evidence.
If that is all true, in addition to the civil suit there should be criminal charges of subborning purgery against the Prosecuting Attorney and anyone else who had knowledge of the switch.
Remember, if Obama had a son . . . .
I suspect Zimmerman is being quite imprudent re-entering the fray and I wonder if this is some grift dreamed up by his lawyers using him as a straw plaintiff. I followed the case at Jerilyn Merritt’s site and certainly did not have the impression that Jeantel’s testimony was worth much to the prosecution. Per Merritt, the misconduct of the prosecutors in that case was outside her experience having practiced criminal defense law for nearly 40 years. The trouble is, the prevailing law and practice grant almost complete immunity to judges and prosecutors, a little gift the courts have given themselves, per Glenn Reynolds.
I also cannot figure how he has standing at this point. The prosecutors’ misconduct was nearly seven years ago. I would think any such suit would be time-barred.
I’ve had the impression that the experience of being the target of a menu of vicious characters (conjoined to his wife abandoning him shortly after the trial concluded and conjoined to a friend subsequently turning on him and trying to injure his reputation, supplementing a previous betrayal by a cousin of his) left Zimmerman seriously disoriented. It would have been agreeable if he could have liquidated his interest in that condo in divorce proceedings, found a studio somewhere, landed a new job in the insurance business, and reclaimed some semblance of an ordinary life, keeping the heck away from women until such time as he was financially stable. I suspect that’s not what’s happened.
Well, maybe if certain court decisions turn out a certain way, he will be able to sue CBS, which launched off with a fraudulent computer generated graphic depicting Zimmerman gunning down a child at a distance, or ABC for its use of a chyron logo and info band to advance a false narrative regarding the absence of injuries to Zimmerman.
I do find it incredible that that smug moron Jeantel, the 19 year old high school Junior, was a substitute “girlfriend” dragged in by a corrupt prosecution; as she did as much harm to their case … by placing Trayvon safely back home before returning to confront Zimmerman … as help.
Or maybe not …
NBC editing the Zimmerman 911 call in a defamatory way, was going to be one of the very few instances of big media losing a libel case, or so I incorrectly thought.
The other element that struck me back then was the one or two forensic audio analysts used by the prosecution who stated in court that they were certain that the person shouting in a high pitched voice on the 911 call was not George Zimmerman. As though someone having their head slammed into a concrete sidewalk will continue to speak in a normal tone of voice.
Eventually, a close friend or relative testified that he or she had witnessed George speaking exactly in that tone of voice when highly distressed.
Either Joel Gilbert or some columnist writing of his work has suggested that the reason for the Zimmerman trial was not to gain a conviction, but merely to have the trial. Further explanation was not provided.
IMO, he should have cleaned the local NBC affiliate’s clock in a defamation suit. They doctored an audiotape to completely alter the meaning of an exchange he had with the dispatcher. Our hideous appellate courts have given our hideous media almost complete immunity from defamation suits, alas, and the suit was thrown out. (Or maybe it was another instance of judicial bias. The local appellate court had to bounce one trial judge off the case because his hostility to the defendant and his family was just too obvious).
Art Deco,
I was unaware of the last detail you provided. I had heard that Zimmerman had crossed a local cop or chief of police by lodging a complaint against said cop’s son and his bad behavior. Was there some reason to believe that there was more than one person’s beef against Zimmerman?
I spent an entire day reading the Conservative Tree House posts on that case. I have checked that blog every day since then. Zimmermann was a victim of a Media hit job. I’m not sure he can make a case but, if a lawyer is doing this on contingency, more power to him.
I used to read talkleft. Jerilyn validated the old saying I made up that the further out the outliers lie, the further out the inliers can lie without being outliers. Compared to her hysterical ultra-left comment family, she looked moderate> But, in isolation, her writings weren’t particularly balanced.
That crowd hung on to the guilty Duke lax case for freaking ever, with weaker and wilder speculation posing as evidence.
No better on Zimmeman.
Various commenters remarked that Jeanintel didn’t seem to have been coached. Usually, prosecutors try to get witnesses to say what they’re supposed to say–the truth if there’s no way around it or if it’s useful–in a way that’s clear and useful. The young lady was not coached or was not coachable. Perhaps they thought they had it worked out with her but she lost her composure once on the stand.
Never heard of swapping witnesses, but, having watche prosecutors, I am not the least bit surprised.
That crowd hung on to the guilty Duke lax case for freaking ever, with weaker and wilder speculation posing as evidence. No better on Zimmeman.
No clue who you’ve confused all of them with. She was perfectly reasonable and there were IIRC few partisans of the prosecution in the comment boxes.
I was unaware of the last detail you provided. I had heard that Zimmerman had crossed a local cop or chief of police by lodging a complaint against said cop’s son and his bad behavior. Was there some reason to believe that there was more than one person’s beef against Zimmerman?
No reason to believe the two incidents were connected. The judge was bounced for his conduct in the courtroom in preliminary proceedings.
George Zimmerman writes at American Thinker: “We Are All George Zimmerman Now”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/12/we_are_all_george_zimmerman_now.html
Why speculate here about all this here and now?
A case has been brought, the process will take its course, evidence and witnesses will appear, and a verdict will be reached.
Be patient.
And remember, just because Barack Hussein says so does not make it true.
The trial was televised. I watched the whole thing, Never should have been brought to trial. Why was it? Obama and the NBA, his pet athletes. Yes, I love basketball. It’s a great game. But now it’s time to sue the deep pockets: LaBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosch, and the League. Without them, this case would have never gone to trial. Sue them now. Destroy the China League.
I have a hunch Zimmerman is counting on the Richard Jewel movie to act as battlespace prep for his trial. One media victim sets the table for another.
I hope he wins a ton. Him & the Sandmann kid. Break a few media banks and let’s see what happens then.
If you recall, the local police and prosecutors cleared Zimmerman. Obama’s muscle stepped in and restored the charges, and the jury was denied evidence that Martin suffered liver and possible brain damage (w/paranoia and poor impulse control) from a drug cocktail he called ‘lean’, based on massive amounts of dextromathorphan combined with Skittles and Arizona Watermelon Fruit Punch. Bill Whittle has a video somewhere with the coroner’s report.
As soon as Obama forced a prosecution where the local authorities saw no reason for one, some mix of fraud and malicious prosecution was all but certain.
Obama’s muscle stepped in and restored the charges,
No, he didn’t. The Justice Department’s odious Community Relations apparat was on the scene making the world worse, but that was a side issue.
Benjamin Crump and Ryan Julison manufactured a public hue and cry with the assistance of the lying media. Gov. Scott was persuaded to appoint a special prosecutor and stupidly took the advice of the state attorney-general and appointed Angela Corey. See Glenn Reynolds on Corey: one of her particular hobby horses is a hostility to people who defend themselves with firearms. She assigns her minion Bernardo de la Rionda to prosecute the case. See Jerilyn Merritt on de la Rionda: she said in nearly 40 years of practicing criminal defense law, she had hardly ever seen such unprofessional behavior by a prosecutor. It was just a perfect storm of the usual cultural pathologies you see among black politicians, the media, and the bar.
and the jury was denied evidence that Martin suffered liver and possible brain damage (w/paranoia and poor impulse control) fr
Hardly mattered. A map of the complex and photographs of the scene demonstrate that Martin quite deliberately trudged 75 yards down an alley (which formed a common backyard for two rows of townhouses) in order to attack Zimmerman. The precise place he did so is known, because that’s where Zimmerman dropped his keys (something recorded by crime scene photographers).
He was a 17 year old youth with extant behavioral problems being shuttled between four different residences in and around Miami and Orlando. One of his interests was mixed martial arts. His conduct that night would be unsurprising, street drugs or no street drugs.
Lotta a MSM malpractice here.
You sure can “change the narrative” by presenting things in a certain way–by leaving certain key pieces of information out, and by manipulating images.
I thought that his defenders–talking about how poor little Trayvon (I note that the MSM deliberately used a picture of Martin as a much younger, smaller, thin child, even though Martin had actually grown quite a bit in size and strength by the time of this incident, when he was 5’11” and 159 pounds) was just coming back from the store, where–as innocent young children do–he bought some candy and pop–was a nice touch.
A nice touch, if you didn’t have the information that mixing some candy and soda with a cough syrup like Robitussin made one of Martin’s favorite buzz-inducing narcotic drinks, that he talked about drinking and liking on social media, a concoction nicknamed “Lean,” “Sizzurp,” or “Purple Drank.”*
* See https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2012/06/what_the_media_choose_not_to_know_about_trayvon.html