on 13 July 2012.

We filed this Verified Motion to Disqualify Trial Judge based upon our review of the Court’s July 6 Order Setting Bond and Florida Rule of Judicial Administration 2.330(d)(1), and after lengthy discussions among the defense team and with George. We feel our motion is in complete compliance with the rule, and await Judge Lester’s decision so this matter may move forward.

Reading the Rules of Judicial administration, if Lester denies the order, he does so on the basis that it is legally insufficient, and that's all he gets to say. "An order of denial shall not take issue with the motion." The judge is supposed to rule "immediately," but is given 30 days to make a decision.

If the motion is granted, rulings made by Lester in the 20 days preceding may be reconsidered and vacated or amended by a successor judge, on motion. [Actually, all rulings are subject to change on motion - 20 days is the time within which O'Mara has to file the motion for reconsideration, with 20 days starting on the day the disqualification order is entered]

There are concerns about O'Mara's performance to date... fully justified IMO

This motion goes some way towards easing concerns about O'Mara.

This is certainly a good move... an essential move IMO.

I'll give O'Mara another chance.

When you get the chance, could you explain some of the concerns people are having with O'Mara? I haven't kept up with that.

It's nerve-wracking waiting to see what Lester will do. Will he recuse himself? I agree that Zimmerman has no chance of SYG with this judge.

The possible "new" judge looks nice........ lol!


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Since we have SPD's crime scene sketch (p 145) and distance table (p 147), it's just a matter of a little trigonometry to calculate the distances involved

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The resulting sketch and calculation:


Solving that right triangle, we find that the vertical distance from Pillar A to OM-6 (segment d above) is 239 inches - right at 20 feet.

Since the townhomes are parallel to the sidewalk running between the townhomes, we can also say that OM-6 is roughly 20 feet down the sidewalk - not including the distance from the top of the T to the point parallel to the north side of the townhomes.

On February 26, 2012, a neighborhood watch captain was attacked by a thug. Trayvon Martin had already been expelled three times in the school year. In one case, twelve pieces of women's jewelry were found in his backpack. His Twitter, MySpace, and YouTube accounts reveal him as a gangsta wannabe, into drugs (and possibly dealing) and screwing "bitches." On the night February 26, "No-Limit Niggah" bought some Skittles and an Arizona Watermelon Fruit Juice Cocktail. Mixed with codeine, they're the ingredients for a cocktail called "Lean" that he seems to have been fond of.

He also apparently tried to buy some blunts -- cheap cigars to be hollowed out and filled with marijuana. When the clerk turned him down, he had a scuzzy trio buy these for him.

He didn't mix the cocktail, but he probably smoked a blunt. The autopsy found THC in his blood and urine.

Martin originally left the 7-Eleven at 6:24. It's a fifteen-minute walk from his condo he was staying in, but forty-five minutes later, he was not back home. There is no reason to doubt George Zimmerman's description of him as wandering around in the rain, looking "like he's up to no good" or "on drugs or something."

After Martin spotted Zimmerman, the teenager had seven more minutes to walk 300 feet to the condo. Instead, he circled back, told Zimmerman that Zimmerman now had a problem -- an understatement, it turned out -- then decked the watch captain with one punch and began pounding him into the concrete sidewalk.

The only eyewitness reported seeing Zimmerman being pummeled, his screams were recorded on several calls, and he had a broken nose and lacerations on the back of his head.

In Florida, you have a right to get out of your vehicle in the presence of an African-American teenager. You have a right to ask a stranger what he's doing in your neighborhood.

George Zimmerman also felt he had a responsibility to do the former. The watch captain had reported Martin to Sanford police and wanted to be able to tell them where the guy was. There had been eight break-ins during the previous fourteen months at the Retreat at Twin Lakes, not to mention several unsuccessful attempts. When the suspects were spotted or caught, they were young black males.

The last time Zimmerman had called 911 to report a stranger casing homes, the guy escaped before the cops arrived.