Flight risk? Are you kidding me? Judge isn't exercising much in the way of good judgement but hey, we got politics to consider here, right?
If he did make bail it would wipe out the entire fund that was set up for his legal defense and the judge knows it, that's why he set it so high. Same as refusing him the possibility of bail, and again, the judge knows it.
"Sure, I'll let you out on bail, as long as you give me all the money collected for your legal defense fund and then find somebody else to handle your case pro-bono after your lawyer quits."
Forum decency standards prevent me from further comment.
GZ and his wife lied (under oath) to the judge's face. I don't blame the judge one little bit for erring on the side of caution. Also, GZ already posted bail, so the notion that the judge is making this impossibly hard and denying GZ the possibility of bail is nonsense.
Please don't try and spin this as some judge conspiring to deny GZ due process - GZ lied to the judge about his finances, the judge set a higher bail, and GZ posted the higher bail within hours. Other than GZ lying under oath, everything else about this sounds normal (and fair) to me.
No, I think you're missing it again. When this was first brought up about Zimmermans lying I pointed out that the
Defense Fund wasn't ever collected as the
Bail Fund, obviously a huge difference between the two! I also pointed out that if the DEFENSE FUND was instead used to make bail that it would in essence defraud all the people that contributed to his defense.
People had all sorts of motives in donating to his DEFENSE Fund. Some wanted better conditions in their home states based on a positive verdict for Zimmerman, others wanted to make a statement of belief, others felt an innocent man had been wronged and wanted to help him defend himself etc. All of the possible reasons for donating to Zimmerman's DEFENSE Fund are directly related to the arguing of the case in court and to Zimmerman having adequate financing to successfully uphold his DEFENSE in the case.
Just what part of that DEFENSE Fund, according to you, was ever earmarked or described or intended as his BAIL Fund when it was collected, long before this whole bail fiasco was dreamed up long after the fact?
The judge has now effectively forced Zimmermans into a fraudulent act. It's called 'Bait & Switch'. Zimmerman's lawyer collected money for the single and specific purpose of Zimmerman's Legal Defense, which because of pressure and tactics employed by the judge now becomes Bait, because it's now used to post Bond which is the Switch!
Zimmerman's spoke truthfully about not having sufficient funds for Bail, because they rightly identified or saw the money collected for Legal Defense as indeed being money collected for Legal Defense, NOT BAIL! That's about as basic as it gets, no spin, no one-sided opinion, no prejudice. A Defense Fund is NOT a Bail Fund, real simple.
