Media Outlets Ask Judge to Unseal Prosecution's Evidence Against George Zimmerman
"A consortium of 13 media companies, including The Associated Press, is challenging efforts to seal certain documents in the second-degree murder case of the neighborhood watch volunteer charged with killing Trayvon Martin," the AP reported today.
"Both sides also say they worry that witnesses will be harassed if their names are released," the AP noted. "The State and Defendant wish to be able to receive a fair trial and try this case in the courtroom and not in the media," prosecutors argued in a legal motion presented to Seminole County Circuit Judge Kenneth Lester Jr., NBC Miami's Edward B. Colby reported last Thursday.
The interests of justice probably dictate sealing the records so that the jury pool is not tainted, particularly given how atrociously the media were in skewing initial coverage of the story, with one network in particular, NBC, editing audiotape to make Zimmerman sound racist.
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I hope the judge is smart and doesn't.
Submitted by c5then on Thu, 05/31/2012 - 12:23pm.
The media are looking to get at the actual evidence so they can begin making excuses and impeaching it in an effort to support their guilty verdict that they rendered the day after the incident happened.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
I wonder why..
Submitted by nixon on Thu, 05/31/2012 - 12:44pm.
They weren't ,or should I say aren't ,so hard over about persueing (sp?) The records of B.H.O. .
Can't begin to imagine why that would be.
Oh great, now we have to revise our whole justice system.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Thu, 05/31/2012 - 12:56pm.
It shall now be three components: the prosecution, the defense and the MSM.
And there's actually a hearing scheduled to entertain this. Unbelievable.
Insanity
Submitted by jon_torlin on Thu, 05/31/2012 - 1:45pm.
This is just way too much insanity.
-Jon
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Submitted by GG_NB on Thu, 05/31/2012 - 1:58pm.
Haven't the MSM done enough damage already? Since they no longer perform the function for which they were intended (giving us unbiased, factual information), can they possibly just stay out of the way -- for the sake of justice?
Ugh, just ugh.
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan