George Zimmerman's $200,000 Legal Problem

     In my two previous posts I mentioned that the people who had donated all this money to him, enabling him to make 25% more than his bail, were both weirdos but also racist weirdos. However there's more to it than this.

     http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2012/04/again-george-zimmerman-defenders-are.html

     http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2012/04/weird-stuff-george-zimmerman-raises.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DiaryOfARepublicanHater+%28Diary+of+a+Republican+Hater%29

     Zimmerman's actions are legally problematic or at least complicating. The one thing you can say about Zimmerman's current lawyer-as opposed to the previous dynamic duo he had representing him-is that he's highly professional and ethical. So he freely admits that had the judge known of this he might well have set Zimmerman's bail higher.

     "George Zimmerman's attorney said his client's bail might have been set higher if a judge had known about $200,000 raised by a website and that only came to light this week."

     "Mark O'Mara said on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 that he only learned about the money Wednesday and will inform a judge at a hearing Friday."

        So certainly O'Mara deserves some credit here.

        http://news.yahoo.com/lawyer-disclose-200k-zimmerman-hearing-112343171.html

         Of course Trayvon's parents are understandably very upset to discover this:

         "The lawyer for Martin's parents, Benjamin Crump, said Friday he has asked the prosecutor in the case to request that the judge revoke Zimmerman's bail for not disclosing at the original bond hearing last week how much money he had."

        "This is a bombshell that was dropped," Crump told The Associated Press. He said the parents, Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton, were "offended" that Zimmerman failed to inform the court of the money the website raised."

          So this is a legal problem too. And yes, it is also creepy and racist. Some have pointed out that Zimmerman himself is not white-or at least not fully, in fact he's white on his father's side, Latino on his mother's.

           However what matters is the race of the victim. If the victim had been white this $200,000 would not have been raised. There are some so insecure out there that they have to hold the coat of any racist who is held accountable. But accountable Mr. Zimmerman will be.