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April 12th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
His former lawyers said that Mr Zimmerman was prepared to give himself up and
would not attempt to flee but Trayvon Martin’s family have expressed concern
that he is outside the state of Florida and no one seems to know exactly
where he is.
Once in custody, Mr Zimmerman would make a first appearance before a judge
within 24 hours, where he would formally have the charges read to him and
told he has the right to counsel. Often the hearing is done by video link
from prison and court authorities would likely go down this route to avoid
protests and potential unrest outside the court.
The issue of bail is also likely to be addressed at the first hearing, where
prosecutors often argue that the defendant is a flight risk and seek to keep
him in prison or else set an exorbitantly high bond in return for freedom.
If Mr Zimmerman is granted bail he would still probably require police
protection or else go back into hiding.
Within three weeks of his first appearance, the 28-year-old would go through
an arraignment hearing, where he would get a chance to enter a plea and opt
for a jury trial. His lawyers would file discovery motions giving them
access to the police records and witness accounts that prosecutors used to
build the case.
In the months after that Mr Zimmerman’s case would go through a range of
hearings where his counsel would have more opportunities to try to influence
the course of events. They might seek a “change of venue” – a
request to move the trial away from Sanford, a city that has been so rocked
by the events.
But David Joffe, of the Joffe Joffe criminal law firm in Miami, said
that Mr Zimmerman’s lawyers might actually fight to keep the case there in
the hope that racial element of the case would be less damaging there.
“Sanford is a fairly conservative area,” he told the Telegraph. “He
may want to stay there because it’s an area that’s more conservative, more
like the Old South and those old attitudes die hard.”
If the case makes it to trial, both sides would aggressively work to rule out
jurors who they think could be biased against them.
“I would assume in a case like this that the lawyers would send out a
fairly detailed jury questionnaire because you would want to strike off
people depending their attitudes to race and their experience of crime.”
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