Clarifying the Defense Fund Issues – Defenders of George Zimmerman and his family (Team Freedom) have split based on their opinion of Mark O’Mara.
On one side it seems there are folks holding strong regard for the job O’Mara is doing. And yes, I will concede their refusal to at least admit the mistakes under the auspices of infallible belief in O’Mara’s skill set has been considerably annoying to me personally. It just seems intellectually dishonest at the most absurd levels.
On the other side people are not feeling so good about O’Mara, because they view the input/outcome equation as the primary tool for evaluating performance. Does his representation, and the actual known actions he has taken, help or hurt George Zimmerman?
In my opinion O’Mara has substantively hurt his client, so I guess you would consider me in group #2. Consequently I turned my personal research into “why” has he compromised his client, and why does he continue to do so? I wanted to know his “motivation” for compromise per se’ and in doing so can that help identify intent.
I guess if you hold opinion that O’Mara has not compromised his client, then this research is not valuable to you and you just might as well quit reading right here. (more…)
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Predictions: Tick Tock, Tick Tock
Lester will quit the case – The underlying biased witness #9 (Meza-Johnson) nonsense was just the icing on the cake filled with bias. Besides he is still taking judicial action even after a motion to recuse has been filed. He is lining up his ducks, headed out, before he has to deal with a few issues stemming from his Fraternity Brother, Mark O’Mara.
Crazy Cousin Cristine issues will go nowhere: They can’t, she’s not stable, and the entire thing is a joke on the media at this point. Benjamin Crump swung for the fence he over promised #9 and waaaaaaaay under delivered about a #2. ***** Whiff ***** If he runs the bases on a strike-out he’ll look silly. There is no “There” there….
Pic of the incident (based on the applicable journalistic standards displayed by NBC during the reporting of the story) credit
But the biggie is the exposure of Mark O’Mara to big legal issues. As Ad rem has outlined, it is looking more and more like O’Mara knew about the defense fund money prior to the bond hearing. And, if push comes to shove, the potential exists for witnesses to be brought forth to give testimony under oath of prior conversations about that defense fund. Who knew what, where, and most importantly, when?
From what can be unearthed and understood within the “Orlando Courthouse Club”, apparently there is somewhat of an unwritten rule in the profession about shaping money, or ignoring ‘found money’, until after indigent filing; and it’s done on purpose. (more…)
According to phone call #30 made by George Zimmerman while in jail, his attorney Mark O’Mara was aware that he had at least $37K on tap prior to his bond hearing. Twice he mentions telling O’Mara about the money. Here’s the entire call #30 made on 4/14/2012 between George Zimmerman and his friend Scott. Only the ringtones have been redacted.
Audio provided courtesy of AxiomAmnesia.com…
Story below the fold… (more…)
This whole thing is a mess. A fabricated mess. New media reports now reflect that 27-year-old Christina Meza Johnson, was shopping her story? The mainstream media essentially left a trail of breadcrumbs right up to her front door (see below) yet, some professional media people are “surprised” that her name is so easily known. Seriously?
(Miami Herald) […] “It’s completely irrelevant, and now we will have to waste 50 hours on something that will never make it to a courtroom,” he [O’Mara] told The Miami Herald Monday night. “He [Zimmerman] denies it. He is saying that it never happened.”
O’Mara said he’s now put in the position of having to discredit the woman, by pointing out things like that she tried to sell her story to People magazine. (more)
Christina Meza Johnson 2007 Mugshot (aka, Cristina Meza, Cristina L Meza, Christina M Johnson, Christina Meza, Christina L Johnson, Cristina L Johnson et al)
Also identified by an apparently apropos tattoo on her right wrist
“Mischief Managed”
If you were to read the NBC labeled African-American Interest Website TheGrio.Com one would think that our little insignificant Treehouse blog with no affiliation to anything, “outed” the identity of Witness #9 Christina Meza-Johnson.
Alas, the actual facts are again divergent from the poor reporting done by main stream authors. In this case Ms. Joy-Ann Reid.
We should give due credit, where credit is due; and it most certainly does not belong to us.
Perhaps after we share with Ms. Reid and others the facts of the “outing” we might be able to talk people into a little actual fact-based investigative journalism in the Trayvon Martin Shooting case. The least we can do is try.
If Ms. Reid actually did a little research, of her own peers, in their words, she would discover the media had already “outed” Cristina Meza, aka Cristina M Johnson. Starting with Matt Gutman identifying her as George Zimmerman’s cousin: (more…)
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It would depend on the parabola.
Hopefully none except the most research minded Treepers will find this post. I’m kinda burying it on purpose…. (more…)