Judge in Zimmerman Case Declines Request For Him to Recuse Himself
On Wednesday, the judge in the case against George Zimmerman refused to recuse himself. Seminole County Circuit Judge Kenneth Lester is the judge presiding in the case where George Zimmerman, an overzealous neighborhood watchman shot and killed an unarmed teenager named Trayvon Martin.
Judge Lester submitted a two-page order in response to a July request made by Zimmerman’s attorneys to recuse himself. In the order, Judge Lester said the request was “legally insufficient” and did not warrant him stepping aside. In their request, Zimmerman’s attorney’s stated that Judge Lester would possibly not conduct a fair trial against Zimmerman because he is the same judge that revoked Zimmerman’s bail and scolded him for lying about his assets at a prior hearing.
Zimmerman’s attorney’s have yet to respond to the judge’s decision to continue with the case.
Zimmerman is facing charges of second degree murder for killing 17 year old Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman killed Martin in February and claimed that his actions were motivated by a fear for his life, citing self defense. Prosecutors are also accusing Zimmerman of racial profiling and have also pointed out that he ignored instructions from 911 dispatchers who specifically told him not to follow the teenager.
The case has drawn nationwide attention with civil rights leaders and activists and many in Black communities across the country asking why Zimmerman was not charged with a crime right after he shot Martin. Sanford Police claimed that they were still investigating and, amidst a lot of pressure, finally arrested Zimmerman in April, two months later. The Chief of Police of Sanford Police Department also resigned after Zimmerman’s arrest and many speculated that he would have been fired for mishandling the case if he had not resigned.
Zimmerman posted bail after his arrest but Judge Lester later revoked it, in June, after prosecutors accused Zimmerman and his wife of being dishonest about how much money they had collected in donations. The judge even said that he suspected Zimmerman had the intention of fleeing the country.
Even after Judge Lester set Zimmerman’s new bail at $1 million, Zimmerman was still able to post bail in early July. Zimmerman’s wife has also been charged with perjury and has pleaded not guilty.
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Sometimes justice is delayed…..but forever on point! Zimmerman will be locked up like the criminal he is!! Vigilantism can’t be tolerated in our “Republic”, especially against INNOCENT CHILDREN.
Your an idiot…
This could go either way here and we would never know. If the judge is sympathetic to Zimmerman, he did what Zimmerman’s camp wanted and now they have an ace in the hole. If the Judge is unbiased then he refused because he plans on going by the rules. I believe that the District Attorney should request an investigation on the Judge to ensure he is unbiased but in doing this he might bias the judge against the state case. A rock and a hard place. We’re watching though.
His lawyer is requesting that the judge step down, because he scolded Zimmerman for lying in court. Hmmmm, so what was he supposed to do have tea and cookies with him. I swear these people take the cake. They don’t want him to pay for killing an unarmed teen, so why am I surprised that they don’t want a judge to chastize him for lying. Big Ups to the judge for not backing down like the last judge did.
Are you kidding? The judge is not supposed to call him a criminal, say he should be found guilty of other charges, and would flee if given the chance. This judge is a joke. He is supposed to be neutral just like Obama is not supposed to get involved. But that’s ok because there will be one person like me who will find this judge and Obama overstepped and find him not guilty. By the way the last judge recused due to personal conflict which is the correct thing to do. Reality is Trevon was a punk, on drugs, who attacked Zimmerman and he defended himself… Case closed
These kind of motions are really putting a BAD TASTE in The Country’s and THE JUDGE’S mouth as to the fact of how GUILTY that ZIMMERMAN REALLY IS!! Maybe he thinks that his “SUPPORTERS” can BUY the trial. The MORE he tries to TAMPER with the course of the JUSTICE SYSTEM!! The MORE its evident of thier attempt to EVADE JUSTICE!! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK ZIMMERMAN & Your attorneys keep this up and you’ll be in JAIL sooner than you know!!! JUSTIC WILL PREVAIL!!!
Please hurry up and sentence this MURDERER to life in prison without the possibility of parole EVER!
Although Ihe calendar reads 2012, the opponents of justice, would have the nation believe it is 1850′s. That was year Dred Scott ( an enslaved man of African heritage) had the termerity to file a law suit.
The presiding judge at the time (Chief Justice Tanner) oppose Scott’s freedom.
Be for ever vigilant in the quest for freedom and dignity, for the Tanners of this nation ate forever striving to strip and deny this innate for some; however, fully retaining freedom for themselves!
Dee if you R going to tell the story of Dred Scott make it plain so the young ppl know what U R talking about spell it out.
Zimmerman is a dumb a*s
let’s just wait and see how he rules in the case concerning the white girl who killed her husband. i hear a sister defended herself and got time! what’s up with that?
When Georgie gets to prison I only hope that the black men serving time in that prison exact justice for Trayvon Martin when the guards aren’t looking…. An eye for an eye!
When Zimmerman is in prison he’ll do all his time under Administration lock down, meaning that he will be locked in isolation 23 hours a day. He will never be out in a population with other prisoners. This is hard tough time. But to protect his life from a killing or a beat down, the Administration will lock him down. They don’t care who he is. To them he just another prisoner; a b**t-head under their protection–his life is in their hands.
I love how people have determined Zimmerman is guilty before the trial even starts. The way I see it, no he shouldn’t have followed Trevon, but Trevon did hit him first. If I had my head slammed against the ground I would defend myself too. Zimmerman had a right to protect himself and by the fact not one person could show he had a racist bone tells me alot. OTOH Trevon showed on several sites (facebook, my space) he was a bigot. He had all kinds of negative stuff posted about white people. Zimmerman has a lot of supporters who believe when the black panthers and Obama got involved the line was drawn in the sand about this being a race issue (which is funny because Obama is half white yet he said Trevon would look like his son if he had one. Really? It could be white as snow). Either way due to them, people like me will make sure it’s a hung jury.
Robin, plan and simple, you need prayer….