George Zimmerman Spent His Trayvon Kickstarter, So His Lawyers Want You to Pay Them

[KG]

With 12 days remaining until George Zimmerman goes on trial for the killing of Trayvon Martin, Zimmerman's lawyers are pleading for more money, insisting that they've somehow burned through almost all of the more than $300,000 in online donations the public somehow have to an alleged murderer. "We've calculated that we need another $120,000 to give George the defense he deserves. At the barest minimum, we need $75,000 to give George a fighting chance," reads the message on Zimmerman's defense fund website, which also notes that there "is less than $5,000 in the trust account." Judging from the twisted history of Zimmerman supporters — and based on the curious history of defense funds, even in the pre-Kickstarter era — that kind of request actually isn't all that out of touch with reality. Don't be surprised if one of the most hated men in Florida gets his non-Kickstarter Kickstarter coffers filled right up in time to pay his lawyers by jury selection.....

http://news.yahoo.com/george-zimmerman-spent-trayvon-kickstarter-lawyers-want-pay-202554548.html

[hobbit709]

1. Boo fucking hoo.

[graham4anything]

2. Lawyers begging for money is unsavory, isn't it? They should investigate kickstarter to see if this

should be allowed or is an abuse of the k.s. system.

[Blue_Tires]

9. Just fleecing the suckers...

Zimmerman is like Jesus on the cross on a whole lot of gun forums...

[The Magistrate]

11. Indeed, Sir: He Lived Out Their Fantasy

And they want it to turn out the way they always imagined it would if they ever got the chance to brace and shoot a 'young thug'....

The whole 'law-abiding gun owner' line is in the same class as 'jumbo shrimp': the demands of their fantasy lives as heroic slayers of 'thugs' and resistors to 'tyranny' require them to adopt an attitude of 'bending the rules' and 'defying authorities' in the pinch when the gun is in hand. So their actual attitude to the law is not 'I will obey the law' but rather 'I will decide which laws I will obey', and yet still their own conviction they are righteous and law-abiding people allows them to feel they are not criminally inclined when they harbor the intent to break laws at will, and even believe that they are not criminals when they actually break laws.

[YarnAddict]

3. Since contributions are voluntary,

they can beg all they want. I'm not going to donate. And if anyone else wants to, that's up to them.

[chemenger]

4. I've got a penney that's been burning a hole in my pocket

for several days now. If I should ever find myself in a generous mood toward that guilty b*****d (doubtful) I might just pass it along to his defense fund.

[rurallib]

5. George should have thought of that when he killed Martin

OOPS - he thought he could get away with murder scot free.
Think he needs the same kind of court appointed counsel that most get in the US justice system.

[grok]

6. when GZ is in the news, he gets paid

when interest dies, he gets nothing. Doesn't matter if it's bad publicity or not. Or that you like him or not. Somebody will send him a buck or two if it appears he needs it. Or reminded he is still in trouble.

[bunnies]

7. He should use a public defender like everyone else who cant pay.

Fuck him and fuck his lawyers. I couldnt care less.

[Blue_Tires]

8. I think the bulk of the money is just "hidden" and not "spent"

Because no matter the outcome of the trial, I don't see how Martin's family doesn't file a civil suit for a big piece of it...

[sad-cafe]

10. want in one hand

#%@$ in the other