“He listed Sgt. Arthur Barnes, Rebecca Villenova, and Trekelle Perkins as all pressuring him to file charges against Zimmerman after the incident. […]  Serino also stated that Barnes is friendly with Tracy Martin and Barnes asked Serino for Martin’s phone number, but ended up getting the phone number from another source.” 

The lead Sanford Police investigator who sought manslaughter charges against George Zimmerman told the FBI that a sergeant and two others officers tried to pressure him into making an arrest in the controversial case — even though he didn’t think there was enough evidence.


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Prosecutor releases another round of Zimmerman evidence…

Also released Thursday:

• Cell phone records from Trayvon Martin’s father, Tracy
• Emails from Zimmerman and Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee
• Crime scene photos and diagrams

*Here’s the link to the latest documents released….all 284 pages in PDF.
*Timeline:  The Trayvon Martin Case…

(MSNBC.com)…A special prosecutor in the second-degree murder case against George Zimmerman released more evidence Thursday, including a first glimpse at what the FBI has found in its civil rights investigation with dozens of witnesses.  The evidence released by Special Prosecutor Angela Corey also included interviews from one of her investigators with Trayvon Martin’s cousin, who was with him the night before Martin was shot.
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Do you love Miley Cyrus, but hate racoons?  Well then, have we got the the viral video for you!   Only goes to prove that Southerners are not only resourceful, they have a wicked sense of humor too.   Our unidentified gentlemen says…
“Aw aw aw… will you, aw will you quit?   I’m ready for some Hannah Montana coon repellent.  Bite me now … I don’t think so.”

It looks like the sheer volume of people trying to access the GZLegalCase site for the judge’s “Order Setting Bail” has caused the server to crash.  Here are all 9 pages of the PDF file for those interested in the details.  Since this is not ‘text’ but just scanned images, you’ll have to excuse the poor quality and offset.

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Update at 4:01 p.m. ET:   Zimmerman’s parents, Robert and Gladys, put up their home as collateral to get their son released, according to papers released by the Seminole County sheriff, USA TODAY’s Yamiche Alcindor reports.  Zimmerman will also pay $9.50 a day for his electronic monitoring.
Update at 3:20 p.m. ET:  Read the judge’s bail order … (pdf file).
SANFORD, Fla. —George Zimmerman was released from the Seminole County Jail around 2:50 p.m. Friday after posting a $1,000,000 bond.  A Florida judge ruled Thursday that George Zimmerman can be released from jail a second time on $1 million bond, saying he set the bail amount significantly higher because Zimmerman may have been hiding money as part of a plot to flee the country.

And look who we have to thank!

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(Psssst….did anyone spot the “imposter”?)

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BTW…How about helping a Puddy out?  (The glasses are not a good look for me.)  Hopefully, as you scan the gravatars above, some of you will become interested in getting a gravatar of your own.  Waltzingmtilda has all the information you’ll need.

Report: Chief Justice Roberts switched his vote to favor Obamacare after he felt striking down the law would damage the Supreme Court’s reputation.  “The fact that the joint dissent doesn’t mention Roberts’ majority was not a sign of sloppiness, the sources said, but instead was a signal the conservatives no longer wished to engage in debate with him,” CBS reports.

Despite cobbling together a coalition consisting of just about every minority, this administration is clearly signaling its desperation with this latest trial balloon:  mandatory voting.  Dear Leader already knows you and I will crawl on hands and knees through broken glass to make it to the voting booths, but he’s obviously not so sure he can get his voters to show up.  Just how is he planning to enforce mandatory voting?  Will he make receiving welfare payments, or your food stamp allotment contingent on proof of voting?  I bet there’s another executive order coming down the pike.
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This is for real.  Obama wants you to tell all your wedding invitees to send their gift money to him rather than you!  You can even register your wedding on his campaign website, because after all…it really is all about him.  This is how socialism works.  All your gifts are belong to us.

The Right Scoop just *updated* their blog with this comment:  “I think I blew it with this one. The tactic referred to by Carney in his press conference yesterday and referenced in my video below is gun-walking, not gun-running. I mistakenly conflated the two of them. Gun-Walking to be clear is the weapons we allowed into Mexico that were never traced – the 2k weapons that turned up into the hands of the Cartel, one of which was used in Brian Terry’s death.
In the video below they are referring to gun-running which did start under the Bush admin. Now both you and I know that the announcement in March 2009 was likely the beginning of Fast and Furious under the guise of Project GunRunner. But the video below doesn’t prove that and thus I have deleted it.
The only question that remains in my mind, and it’s a big one, is how in the world can Jay Carney and the White House say gun-walking started under the Bush administration without supplying proof that it did? No, we all know it didn’t start under the Bush administration or else they’d release the documents and vindicate themselves.  In any event, I’ll try harder to not conflate these two in the future.”
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The fact that this insufferable little crapweasel took the podium yesterday and continued to lie to our faces is beyond belief.  How…let me repeat….how can he continue to assert Holder put an end to something Holder himself says he didn’t even know about?  We’ve gotten to the point with this administration where the spoken word means absolutely nothing.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney maintained several times yesterday that gun-running was not generated out of Washington DC and when A.G. Eric Holder found out about the tactic of gun-running, he stopped it. But this is simply not true. Deputy Attorney General David Ogden at a news conference in March of 2009 clearly associates A.G. Holder and the Obama administration with the tactic of gun-running:

For those of you who will contest this clip is out of context, go watch the entire 30 min news conference at C-SPAN.