Would Zimmerman have had a license to carry a gun if his father wasn't a judge?
Here's the story.
George Zimmerman, Son of a Retired Judge, Has 3 Closed Arrests
Did George Zimmerman have help from his father, a retired judge, in clearing his name in three separate arrests?
That’s the question that’s being asked now that more information on Trayvon Martin’s 28-year-old killer is being revealed. Robert Zimmerman, a former Orange County magistrate judge, recently wrote a letter to The Orlando Sentinel
defending his son, who’s been dragged through the mud for shooting the
unarmed 17-year-old last month. In the letter, the senior Zimmerman asks
people not to jump to conclusions and insists that his son didn’t
follow the young boy home as he walked through their gated community.
“He would be the last to discriminate for any reason whatsoever. The
media portrayal of George as a racist could not be further from the
truth. At no time did George follow or confront Mr. Martin. When the
true details of the event became public, and I hope that will be soon,
everyone should be outraged by the treatment of George Zimmerman in the
media,” wrote Robert Zimmerman.
Now more info is being dug up on his “victimized” son through public records and revealing his checkered past.
According to a records search on George, he was previously arrested
for domestic violence, resisting an officer without violence and most
shockingly, resisting an officer with violence — a felony charge that surely could have landed him in prison.
All three of those arrests, however, were mysteriously closed with no
semblance of charges for the Florida resident. So how was someone with a
violent past including that of battery against an officer able to carry
a 9 mm handgun? Maybe that’s a question Robert Zimmerman should answer …
George Zimmerman had felony assault on police officer charge in ’05 & 2 domestic assaults
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From the Orange County, FL Circuit Court Clerk of the Court Records page: [link to myclerk.myorangeclerk.com]
Record Count: 4
Search By: Party Exact Name: on Party Search Mode: Name Last Name:
Zimmerman First Name: George Case Status: Closed Date Filed On or After:
01/01/2005 Date Filed On or Before: 01/01/2006 Sort By: Filed Date
Case Number Citation Number Style/Defendant Info Filed/Location/Judicial Officer Type/Status Charge(s)
2005-CF-009525-A-O
ZIMMERMAN, GEORGE MICHAEL
10/05/1983
07/18/2005
Div 10
OKane, Julie H
Criminal Felony
Closed
CR-RESISTING OFFICER WITH VIOLENCE
BATTERY ON LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER
2005-MM-010436-A-O
ZIMMERMAN, GEORGE MICHAEL
10/05/1983
07/18/2005
Orlando
Miller, W Michael
Misdemeanor
Closed
CR-RESISTING OFFICER WITHOUT VIOLENCE
2005-DR-012980-O
ZUAZO, VERONICA vs. ZIMMERMAN, GEORGE M
08/09/2005
Div 44
44, TBA
Domestic Violence
Closed – SRS
2005-DR-013069-O
ZIMMERMAN, GEORGE M vs. ZUAZO, VERONICA A
08/10/2005
Div 46
White, Keith F
Domestic Violence
Closed – SRS
I don't think so. I think we have a priviledged kid whose father got him out of everything he's dpne so far and whom the prosecutor intended to allow to get away with this too if there hadn't been public scrutiny. Getting a pass on one violent charge might be appropriate under some circumstances, getting a pass on three violent charges is not. He's getting special treatment for some reason, and the most likely reason is his father's position.
Had he been convicted in any of those three charges, he could not have gotten a conceal/carry permit so if his father has been providing him with cover he also has some responsibility here. I doubt that he has any culpability under the law, but he definately has a moral responsibility.
BTW, I think it would be a very close contest for MOST CORRUPT GOVERNOR between your Scott and our Scott!
The stand your ground laws allow personal fear to justify what may well be an act of murder. Someone suffering from paranoia may well fear everyone and everything they encounter on the street, so if their fear is the threshold they are entitled under the law to kill anyone they want. It's the "presumption of reasonable fear" in the law that makes it a license to kill, and that's the only change the law makes. Self defense has always been an acceptable defense for using lethal force in every state in the country, but until these laws came along there was a standard of evidence applied to invoke it's use.
Under the new laws cops have to prove that the shooting was unjustified to investigate it, and they have to investigate to prove whether the shooting was reasonable or not. It puts police and prosecutors in a catch 22 where the letter of the law over-rides the dictates of reason.
And you also consider repeated domestic violence, which is the leading cause of murder in the United States, a "minor issue?"
How am I supposed to consider you credible when you make statements like that?
Treyvon got caught with a little pot in High School, this guy has beat up his girlfriend twice and a cop once and nobody was mentioning it. That wasn't fair.
What we need is a full investigation and whatever charges the facts from it justify, but people ripping into a dead kid to protect what appears to have been an armed attacker kind of pissed me off so I posted the facts I knew to give at least a little balance.
Zimmerman's claim that he was being attacked by a kid 100 lbs lighter than him while he was pursuing the kid with a loaded weapon doesn't smell right either, especially when police video of him 30 minutes later show no evidence of injury.
I'm asking questions here, not drawing conclusions, but they seem to me like questions that are far more relevant than Treyvon havin an empty pot baggy in his locker.
Next question do whites need the blackfamily? Black people are Original people. Original people make 41/2 Billion $ a year. We spend back 4 Billion to corperate america. Imagine the fall America will take after being short 4 Billion $. She will die a quick death in 30 days.
Original people dont need the whiteman or his crooked system. Seperation is the only way to keep our babies safe. Rest in Peace brotha Travon. Peace & Blessings to you all....
The world would be a better place if we used statements like yours, from either side, as a universal instruction to ignore their authors.
It angers me because I don't think it should even have to go federal. They need to get right down to what happened that night, chronologically, all phone calls and witnesses and any other evidence. To my knowledge, they did not take his gun, but on this I'm not sure. I hope they did. His father has actually done him no favors protecting him. Had he not protected him, maybe he would not have had a gun and killed this young man.
I wouldn't trust an investiagation from there without very strong coroberating evidence.
One of my oldest and best friends from grade school lives there and is for the drug testing. I simply cannot talk to her about it or anything else going on there, as I'm positive she doesn't want to hear it.
The people wanted those corrupt laws and decided long ago that fairness for anyone else besides their own small interests did not matter. They only have themselves to blame now that there's nothing they can do about it.
I still feel bad for Trayvon and his family though. It would kill me inside.
What the hell happened?
When a group becomes convinced that they are doing God's work, any wrong can be justified as the "mysterious way" in which he works. When you represent the master of the universe, the rights of humans become disposable.
Hey I just heard on the news that on the night of the shooting the lead investigator filed an affidavit that there should have been manslaughter charges filed. There may be hope yet.
HANG THEM BOTH IF TRUE.
FALSE INFORMATION in the story that NEEDS CORRECTION.
No Republicans are running around claiming the shooting is justified because of POT, only PATHETIC WHITE LIBERALS making the false claim, Black people are SMARTER THAN THAT.
The lust to celebrate the death of a child I've seen on these pages is yet more evidence that the right has no ability to display dignity or grace, no interest in what is real over their political cult doctrine. I'm surprised they haven't chartered busses to go group urinate on the kid's grave, maybe they have but in private groups.
The information in the story comes from court records, he's been arrested for three crimes, each of which would disqualify him from gun ownership even in states with the stand your ground law because of their violent nature, been found innocent of none, and now he's killed a child.
That's a failure of the system in my opinion, Perhaps dead children don't indicate anything wrong to you, but a lot of people seem to disagree.
My first GF's stepdad was also a cop and he was pretty cool, we use to drink afternoons with our bar gang..
Having connections never hurts...
(edited for spelling only)
(1) The police dispatcher tells Zimmerman not to follow the teen.
(2) The Police dispatcher asks if he is still following the teenager. He says Yes.
(3) You can hear Zimmerman starting to run after the teen on the dispatch recording.
A neighborhood WATCH is to WATCH and report to police what you see so they can handle it.
This guy wanted to play cop without training or a badge.
Now it has been revealed that the lead officer in the case wanted to charge Zimmerman with murder. But Sanford, Fla., Investigator Chris Serino was instructed to not press charges against Zimmerman because the state attorney's office headed by Norman Wolfinger told him not to. But the lead officer wrote an affidavit or sworn statement and submitted it anyway that he felt Zimmerman should be charged with murder. He was taken off the case. Officers don't submitt a report when they are told not to (especailly a sworn statement) unless they want to cover themselves because they feel a crime has been committed.
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