update: Here’s the Full response motion pdf file
If you read the Orlando Sentinel article written by Rene Stutzman today, maybe you will be able to witness the leverage over O’Mara we have oft talked of, and described as being dangerous to George Zimmerman’s defense.
George Zimmerman and his immediate circle of influence were/are well aware of the risk O’Mara has presented. They know he lied – yet they stuck with him. Perhaps because they felt sorry for him, or perhaps because they simply had no other option. Regardless, it is now abundantly clear, the full extent of the compromise. Perhaps today, they are more understanding….
Note not only how Bernie De La Rionda is talking – but note also what references he is talking to. Specifically calling back into light the Financial Affidavit with a well placed rhetorical question to O’Mara: …”do you really want to go there?”…
For months we have been trying to warn readers, of the risks to using a less than honest person, O’Mara, to confront liar(s): Bernie De La Rionda, Angela Corey, Benjamin Crump, Natalie Jackson and Daryl Parks (The Scheme Team). From the date of the second bond hearing the State has retained the capacity to incapacitate the defense – because they hold evidence of unethical behavior, untruthfulness, and as BDLR eloquently alludes – “Mistatements”.
Within this latest motion you will see the compromised position of Mark O’Mara – and how he is incapable, because of his prior false statements, and to the fullest extent needed, to advocate for his client.
Sure, in the larger sense, BDLR is saying the ridiculous position: ‘So what if I lied or misled you, you misled us first’; Yes, a ridiculous position. But a position created by, and solely existing because of, the actions and behaviors of O’Mara. THAT is why from the second bond hearing – O’Mara should have had the courage of his professional responsibility to tell his client: ‘I can no longer represent you, I screwed up’. He didn’t…. Chickens now coming home with passports and financial affidavits to roost.
Yep, some will see, yet perhaps most will not. But there it is in all its glory:
Although I still do read the treehouse; Sundance has done, and continues to do, great harm to the blog. If he wants to keep readers he needs to lose the tinfoil hat with the incessant Omara bashing. – Posted by david | March 28, 2013, 3:26 pm
The only good thing to come out of this is now the “black mail” material is out in the open – and perhaps, just perhaps, an honest conversation can be had between O’Mara and the Zimmerman family. I hope and pray that is the outcome. Sunlight is always the best disinfectant. …/sd
ORLANDO – In a sarcastic, insult-laden pleading, the lead prosecutor in the George Zimmerman case on Thursday called defense attorney Mark O’Mara a “craven” duplicitous grandstander who “courts anything resembling a microphone or camera.”
He also suggested that O’Mara was either unethical or does not know the meaning of one of the most common words in a defense attorney’s vocabulary: exculpatory, an adjective used to describe a piece of evidence that tends to prove a suspect’s innocence.
Bernie de la Rionda’s pleading came three days after O’Mara asked Circuit Judge Debra S. Nelson to fine de la Rionda an unspecified amount, accusing him of hiding a key piece of information for seven months: the fact that his most important witness had lied under oath in April.
In his response today, de la Rionda admitted that he’d failed to disclose that until three weeks ago but said O’Mara hasn’t shown any actual damage and thus, his office should be off the hook.
“No misconduct has occurred, nor should sanctions be rewarded to compensate counsel,” de la Rionda wrote.
[…] O’Mara’s request for sanctions is just grandstanding, de la Rionda wrote, the act of a lawyer guilty of “craven conduct.” O’Mara “courts anything resembling a microphone or camera,” he wrote, and should understand the awkwardness of other people making misstatements.
De la Rionda also pointed out that O’Mara has made misstatements, including when he told a judge that Zimmerman and his wife were indigent. (article link)