04-11-2012, 03:48 AM
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we will know more by friday apparently - the first results of the first investigation are about to be released.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/04/1...-withdraw.html
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SANFORD -- With prosecutors saying they will announce a decision in the Trayvon Martin case by Friday, George Zimmerman appears to have struck out on his own.
He launched a website without telling his two attorneys, spoke to a talk show host and put in a call to the special prosecutor investigating him for the Feb. 26 shooting of Trayvon Martin. After Zimmerman went AWOL from his lawyers for two days, the attorneys held a press conference late Tuesday afternoon and quit.
Hours later, special prosecutor Angela Corey announced she would make an important announcement in the case in the next 72 hours.
?I?d have to count how many text messages I sent saying: ?Please call me. Please call me collect. Please text me. Please email me. Please, so we can go forward,?? one of Zimmerman?s lawyers, Craig Sonner, said about his former client. ?After I started getting calls from different people saying that he was giving statements to the media, calling the prosecutor?s office and not calling me, that?s when it started dawning on me that I wasn?t the attorney of record anymore.?
Now, the parents of the Miami Gardens teenager Zimmerman shot say they fear the man their lawyers call the ?neighborhood watch loose cannon? will run. For the first time, Sonner and co-counsel Hal Uhrig acknowledged that Zimmerman is ?far from Florida,? but still inside the United States.
?He is well hidden,? Sonner said.
They stressed that they never considered Zimmerman a flight risk, because he always cooperated with law enforcement and was easily reachable by phone. Even now, the attorneys say that a man who is poised to flee the country to avoid possible criminal charges would not check in with the prosecutors who appear poised to arrest him.
?We were a bit astounded,? Uhrig said, stressing that he always tells clients not to talk to prosecutors, cops, reporters or anybody else. ?Now he is telling people: ?I don?t have an attorney. Those guys were just my legal advisers.? I?m not sure what the difference is.?
Sonner said Zimmerman was eager to tell the state attorney his side of the story. ?He wanted to give his statement, and I was going to let him,? Sonner said. ?But he was supposed to call me. Let me make the call. I hope he has found someone else to represent him.?
Zimmerman went into hiding after Sanford Police declined to arrest him for Trayvon?s shooting, sparking nationwide outrage.
Trayvon, 17, a junior at Dr. Michael Krop Senior High School, went for a walk to the store on a rainy Sunday night in Sanford, where he was visiting his father and his father?s girlfriend. Zimmerman called police, saying there was something suspicious about someone who walked too slowly in the rain, seemed high on drugs and appeared to be ?looking about.?
About six minutes later, Trayvon was dead.
The neighborhood watch captain told police that Trayvon approached him from behind, that the two exchanged harsh words and that the boy allegedly hit him hard enough to break his nose. He said Trayvon slammed his head on the concrete, forcing Zimmerman to fire once with the semiautomatic handgun he was licensed to carry on a holster on his waist.
But the investigation that followed was so fraught with problems that it was not long before the case caught the attention of civil rights figures such as the Revs. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. Intense pressure from around the country grew until Gov. Rick Scott appointed a special prosecutor and the Sanford police chief took a leave of absence.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/04/1...#storylink=cpy
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