… such is the bizarre reality of George  Zimmerman’s attorney, Mark O’Mara.

Mark O'Mara 1Before getting into the substance of this consideration – multiple disclaimers are needed.

It is a sad reality the previous sentence even needs to be advanced, but it has become a necessary consideration.   Because discussion of Mark O’Mara is so toxic and divisive, if we don’t quantify the substance of presentation with disclaimers we’ll spend a ridiculous amount of time having to moderate, explain and explain again.

We have approached both opinion and research on Mark O’Mara using the exact same methodology applied to all other parties in this case.  People like Benjamin Crump, Natalie Jackson, Daryl Parks, Ryan Julison, Francis Oliver, et al, and even the media people like Daralene Jones, Matt Gutman, Frances Robles, Joy-Ann Reid etc.   The exact same critical research approach has been applied.

Some people cannot accept using a critical lens to look at the O’Mara aspect.  Many of those people are no longer here because of their inherent constitution not to be open-minded in the same regard.

What sets the Treehouse apart from most all others, is analysis based on research to apply the most logical explanations, Occam’s Razor, to some of the most difficult to understand aspects of any issue.   The State of Florida V Zimmerman is one of the most challenging to understand from a perspective of intent and motivation.

crump - O'Mara 2Embedded within the case understanding are so many divergent and yet connected legal and political ideologies.   If you have never studied how ideology influences intentions then this case will drive you nuts.   However, if you understand how ideology can and does influence behavior then things begin to reconcile.  They don’t necessarily make sense, because much, if not all of it, is nonsense, but they do reconcile.

This author is not going to cite for the eleventyth time all of the previous examples of why Mark O’Mara is a poor defense lawyer for George Zimmerman.   No, for the substance of this discussion time is short – time is critical – and yet time itself is even being manipulated.  So in the interests of time we’re just getting down to brass tacks.

If you read Robert Zimmerman Sr’s book you may have noted the chapter about the people in the case.  You may also have noted his points about Mark O’Mara;  Including the first time they met with O’Mara stating:  “I’m a control freak“.

I’m a control freak“, is not in itself a concern – especially given the nature of O’Mara’s profession.  However, the natural follow-up question to anyone advancing a position of representation with the same affirmation would be:  “why”?

Whether anyone at the time had the capacity to actually ask O’Mara “why” is an unknown variable.   This author highly doubts that given the hurricane of hate and misinformation swirling just outside the window anyone was in the frame of reference to seek to understand exactly what O’Mara was implying with his self-described attribute.

Dying of thirst in an unfamiliar desert of hatred, amid an ongoing sandstorm of community anger, the only guy willing to provide a glass of water is not to be dispatched lightly.  Nor would his motivation be a top priority – Indeed, survival instincts would trump prudence.

Robert Zimmerman highlights well how disconcerting it was, and is, to watch the words from their counsel flow visibly through their television screen.  Yet, today, especially today, the family patriarch must also be carefully measured in his words and tone for that counsel is still, as it was then, the only water-bearing option.

However, unlike he, or any member of his still vulnerable-to-thirst family, we are under no such internal circle pressure.  We can speak bluntly and directly, and are able to afford ourselves a lack of measured consideration.

In as much as Mark O’Mara lived up to his promised attribute.  He took control of the family finances, he took control of the defense fund, he took full financial control of their lives and livelihood.

Give any reputable attorney the same set of historical outlines, and ask them what they would do.   More than nine out of ten would tell you they would never consider putting themselves between a client and his/her money.  It creates a toxicity in the relationship because it brings a fiduciary responsibility into a relationship which should only be vested in legal representation.   Period.  However, that’s not the issue of the moment….

…. what is more urgently pressing is the ideology behind the representation itself.

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As O’Mara himself has stated, were it not for his current client “he and Benjamin Crump would be on the same side“.   O’Mara even went as far as to cry publicly on BET (Black Entertainment Television) to show how much he aligns with the victimized black people, primarily young black males, who encounter the criminal justice system.

When asked more recently about the State V Zimmerman case being the “Civil Rights Trial of the Century” (Crump’s descriptive) O’Mara said he would “agree” with that position “if George had not been arrested“.

Now, this might be sold by those of lesser criticism as O’Mara trying to parlay himself into a position of increased influence or leverage toward a goal of freeing George Zimmerman.  Indeed, if this was the only example of his ideology I would perhaps agree.   Alas, this statement must be taken amid the ALL the historical references we have since April 11th, 2012.

Any objective reviewer would admit the entire fabric of the arrest affidavit was fraudulent and of false construct.   The entire arrest was unwarranted, manipulated, and only created to insure an appeasement toward the Professional Black Grievance Industry.   It was, indeed, just giving them a walk to the first base allowing them to proceed on the baseline toward civil litigation. So why would a non-arrest be a valid framework for civil rights complaints? As espoused by the representative of the person wrongfully arrested? Go ahead – reconcile it.

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The second base which needed to be passed was the “immunity hearing”.   If George Zimmerman had successfully requested and received immunity, no civil damages would be possible for the Scheme Team.

It was only, and not accidentally immediately, AFTER ‘control freak’ O’Mara publicly stated he would not seek an immunity hearing the insurance carrier for the Retreat at Twin Lakes settled for an extortion amount of almost $2 million.

The Scheme Team happily took a leisurely stroll to second base.   Giving Mark O’Mara a notable, and registered by U.S Postal mail, high five along the way.   The hat tip toward the dugout was unnoticed by all except the most diligent observers in the crowd.   [Shoeless Joe Jackson would have been proud].

Stealing third base is always the most difficult challenge in baseball for even the best base runners.   But a good base stealer makes the entire infield jumpy.   This Scheme Team has a Rickey Henderson in Ben Crump.

What people are not paying attention to is who’s the 3rd base coach.

Third base houses the criminal trial, and is constructed with the fabric of the jury.  Think of the racial balance of the jury as the stitching.

As everyone was distracted by Patchouli Pony tail whack job E-7’s reappearance at the courthouse, few noted the ease of advancement for G-81.

First base and second now loaded.

After the Friday jury selection period, self-described ‘control freak’ Mark O’Mara said a few things to the media:

Who’s “we”?

“Survive” what?

Doesn’t sound like he’s talking about his client George Zimmerman.

Because he’s not. He’s talking about the more important client to him.

As the bases load The Miami-Dade School Police Department information sits like a well rested Roger Clemons in the dugout. Itching to get on the field and close out the risk. But someone, or some ideological thing, is stopping the coach from even considering it.

Ask yourself this question. If you were going to depose School Resource Officer Daryl Dunn, to gain an understanding of Trayvon Martin’s propensities, wouldn’t you want to know what Dunn previously said about Trayvon Martin to his own team?

O’Mara obviously did not.

Why?

Shouldn’t it alarm people that Mark O’Mara and Don West have NEVER filed for the information internal to the Miami-Dade School Police Department’s encounters with Trayvon Martin?

Would it surprise you to know that we are the only people who have EVER requested this FOIA-able information from public records. Why is that?

Tender folks might say that it’s quite possible it would never be allowed to be discussed in trial. True, but if you don’t know what’s there, how can you make that determination.

There’s a pretty strong argument of real fact-based information, that would lend one to find out young Mr. Martin was indeed Baker Acted. Meaning, a Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) would have begun a process for a psychologist to divert Trayvon into a behavioral counseling program.

By its very nature the Baker Act is used to address people whose pattern of behavior had shown the potential for risk to themselves, or others. Don’t you think the affirmative psychological evaluation to that end would be easily admissible given the exact nature of the encounter being argued?

What does the unwillingness to even look into this legally presentable defense position say about the ideological goals of Mark O’Mara?

Whose sensibilities would it upset?

Certainly not his client who is forced to sit there as a stoic potted plant while he watches the thread for third base loaded into the sewing machine. A full one-third of it, so far, is black – yet the racial demographics of Seminole County are 11%.

Does “believable” imply that George must be acquitted by an overly representative black jury? Is that the only “believable” way to “survive”…

Can you imagine how powerless the feeling must be to sit and be forced to watch unable to do anything – lest the ire of the self-described “control freak” withdraw the water.

A motion to continue presented to the court, the “meh” approach in watching it denied – yet according to the DCA, Crump had 30 days to appeal their overruling of Nelson’s decision.

A motion, like many others, not accidentally missing on the GZ legal page.

Sooner or later the crowd is going to realize who the third base coach is. Unfortunately, by the time that happens the bases will be loaded, his mission accomplished, and a worn out pitcher will be only capable of lobbing softballs to a looming Hank Aaron as he steps up to the plate.

Gee, what are the odds?

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