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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPappy Zim: If police had presented case facts when I was a judge, there'd be no arrest warrant
Zimmerman says he asked the police department to release information saying Trayvon Martin verbally threatened his son's life. We asked how he thinks the Sanford Police Department has handled the case.
"I believe if they look back maybe they would have done things differently. I believe Chief Lee did an outstanding job. I don't know. I'm sure they would have done some things differently," he said.
Robert Zimmerman says if the police had presented the facts in the case to him back when he was a sitting judge, he says he would not have issued an arrest warrant.
http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/dpp/news/state/dad-no-racial-slur-on-911-recording-03292012
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Lots of posts here saying he's a magistrate, and not a judge...sounds like a magistrate does have some duties one normallya ttributes to a judge.
Anyway, the guys a POS...the scumbag didn't fall far from the tree.
hlthe2b
(102,292 posts)to include:
http://valawyersweekly.com/2008/04/07/magistrate-system-is-upgraded-pay-is-not/
The elder Zimmerman was a magistrate from 2000 to 2006, so he would not have likely had even the level of responsibilities detailed in the link above.
Virginia Courts have been quick to clarify that magistrates are NOT judges. A college degree has only been recently required; most are not lawyers.
Here is what the Virginia courts system has verified re: the elder Zimmerman.
(This was given to an ABC affiliate in reference to whether or not Robert ZImmerman was a judge: (http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/news/crime/zimmerman-dad-worked-as-magistrate)
http://www.courts.state.va.us/courtadmin/aoc/djs/programs/mag/home.html
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)DJ13
(23,671 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)that follows Zimmerman after he buys candy from the story and guns him down.
izquierdista
(11,689 posts)Seems his reputation succeeds him, as there STILL isn't an arrest warrant.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)Or is he still flapping his lips to FOX affiliate today?
Amerigo Vespucci
(30,885 posts)...the story at the link in my O.P. refers to it as "a wide-ranging interview with FOX 35's Valerie Boey," so I am assuming they have just chopped it up into multiple, smaller sound bites.
malaise
(269,054 posts)Both he and the son have inferiority complexes and think they are way more important in the scheme of things.
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)Trayvon threatened to kill George. It now appears clear that George was never beaten. What was Trayvon threatening George with? his box of Skittles?