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This image of George Zimmerman was taken from a video released by attorney Howard Iken, who is representing Zimmerman in his divorce, on March 12, 2014. (AP)
The story was too shocking even for the person at the center of it. After all, this was the same man who was going to take part in a celebrity boxing match. George Zimmerman, the killer of Trayvon Martin, sold a painting of the hoodie-wearing unarmed 17-year-old for $30,000 in an online auction. The photo of a smiling Zimmerman holding the artwork with Justice for all lightly painted in the background is as galling as it is tasteless.
And its a fake.
That Zimmerman is painting isnt news. His $100,000 eBay sale and the dust-up with the Associated Press over his use of their photo of Special Prosecutor Angela Corey have made headlines. But upon seeing what was billed Zimmermans latest sale on a friends Facebook page, I immediately contacted Robert Zimmerman Jr., Georges brother. His response was swift.
If that were true I would denounce it as repulsive myself, Robert wrote me. There is no way George would even contemplate disparaging the likeness of Trayvon Martin. Professional digital pot-stirrers are at it again and amusing themselves by disrespecting a tragedy. He added, The circulation of these fraudulent images puts George in danger. People who believe the stories are rightfully incensed. It appears that is the objective of the parties behind the fabrication of the false news stories and forged art.
Even the smallest amount of effort would have uncovered all of this as a fake. The site featuring the Zimmerman story is called TheNewsNerd. Find it for yourself. That Im even mentioning it at all is more than it deserves. Anyway, when you scroll down to the bottom of the site, youll see the following message.
(Screenshot from TheNewsNerd)
The stories are for entertainment purposes only. They are purely satirical. And they are not funny. Not in the slightest. This particular story roiled emotions that ranged from oh NO he didnt! to pure rage. Im all for good satire, but this was dumb and dangerous.
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April 3, 2014|By Jeff Weiner and Rene Stutzman, Staff Writers
The names of the six-member jury panel that acquitted George Zimmerman in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin have been made public for the first time, after a new court order, records show.
Circuit Judge Debra Nelson, who had previously ordered the jurors' identifying information be kept confidential, granted access to the names in a ruling March 21.
Zimmerman's defense asked the judge in June to keep the names secret until six months after the verdict. The judge set no timeline then, but noted in her new order they have been withheld more than eight months.
Attempts to reach the jurors by phone and in-person Thursday were unsuccessful. The Sentinel typically does not name jurors unless they've agreed to be interviewed.
In Florida, the names of jurors usuallyarepublic and are announced and used by the judge and attorneys during jury selection.
Nelson's order follows an inquiry last month by the Sentinel.
In a letter, Sentinel attorneys asked Nelson for a specific ruling on how long she planned to maintain the jurors' anonymity, noting it was already "well past the six month 'cooling off' period requested by the defense."
The defense, in its motion, argued a delay was needed beyond the trial to allow "for any community passions to cool."
The Sentinel and other media outlets opposed that delay.
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George Zimmerman jury: Names of jurors released by court ...
posted at 7:01 pm on April 5, 2014 by Jazz Shaw
This one immediately earns the tag of what could possibly go wrong? It seems that in Florida, it is common for the names of jurors to be released to the public once the trial is over. (Some of you lawyers in the crowd can help out by letting us know how common this is.) In cases where there might be substantial danger to the jurors or their families because of emotions running high in the community, that release may be delayed for a time, but not indefinitely. There was such a delay regarding the case of George Zimmerman in the Sunshine State, but now the clock has run out.
The names of the six-member jury panel that acquitted George Zimmerman in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin have been made public for the first time, after a new court order, records show.
Circuit Judge Debra Nelson, who had previously ordered the jurors identifying information be kept confidential, granted access to the names in a ruling March 21.
Zimmermans defense asked the judge in June to keep the names secret until six months after the verdict. The judge set no timeline then, but noted in her new order they have been withheld more than eight months.
Attempts to reach the jurors by phone and in-person Thursday were unsuccessful.
Ill bet attempts to reach them were unsuccessful. If I was one of those jurors and had been watching the treatment that Zimmerman, his family and anyone who failed to condemn him sufficiently have received, Id be on my way to another state under an assumed name, if not another country. If this trial revealed anything useful about our society, its that there is no shortage of people who dont feel particularly bound to the constitutional idea of trial by jury, and will endeavor to set things to rights if a decision doesnt go the way they feel it should have.
Zimmermans own parents have been learning that lesson the hard way, and are now looking at having to sue television personality Roseanne Barr because of it. Wait what?
George Zimmermans parents are suing Roseanne Barr for tweeting their home address, which they say forced them to go into hiding for years.
Robert and Gladys Zimmerman have filed a lawsuit against Barr, accusing the comedian and actress of posting an open and obvious call for vigilante justice, which she intended to cause a lynch mob to descend on their Lake Mary, Florida, home.
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SANFORD, Fla. (AP) George Zimmerman's wife pleaded guilty Wednesday to a misdemeanor perjury charge for lying during a bail hearing after her husband's arrest, and she was sentenced to a year's probation and 100 hours of community service.
Shellie Zimmerman, 26, had been charged with felony perjury after she lied about the couple's assets during a bail hearing following her husband's arrest for the fatal 2012 shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, was acquitted last month of second-degree murder. Shellie Zimmerman had been charged with a felony and, if convicted, had faced up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine. She had given her bail-hearing testimony by telephone last year because of safety concerns for Zimmerman's family.
As part of the deal, Shellie Zimmerman wrote a letter of apology to Judge Kenneth Lester, who presided over last year's bail hearing.
"By lying under oath, I let my God down, I let your Honor and the court down, I let my family and friends down, and, most of all, I let myself down," Shellie Zimmerman wrote in the letter.
Shellie Zimmerman misled the court because she had been told by others to say "maybe that's not my money," her attorney, Kelly Sims, said after the hearing.
"But in her heart, you know, if it walks like a duck and looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, it's a duck," Sims said. "She was calling from a phone. She was scared. Her husband was locked up. She didn't know what was going on. So, she stood by her man, like Tammy Wynette says. She's accepting responsibility."
Prosecutor John Guy said he agreed to the deal because Shellie Zimmerman didn't have a prior criminal record and the misdemeanor plea would allow her to pursue her nursing career.
"The important thing is that she apologized to Judge Lester for what she did," said Guy, who helped prosecute Zimmerman unsuccessfully. "The proof is not in question in this case. It was only a matter of what should be done as far as the disposition."
Court records show that in the days before the bond hearing in June 2012, Shellie Zimmerman transferred $74,000 broken into eight smaller transfers ranging from $7,500 to $9,990 from her husband's credit union account to hers. It also shows that $47,000 was transferred from George Zimmerman's account to his sister's in the days before the bond hearing. Amounts of over $10,000 would have been reported to the Internal Revenue Service.
Four days after he was released on bond, Shellie Zimmerman transferred more than $85,500 from her account into her husband's account, records show. They also show that the jail recorded George Zimmerman instructing her on a call to "pay off all the bills," including an American Express and Sam's Club card.
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