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Insanity Break: The Terms

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Targetpractice6/18/2012 8:57:21 pm PDT

re: #69 Talking Point Detective

Didn’t trust O’Mara? So they thought their own attorney would be monitoring their calls and they wanted to hide their money from him?

And the transfer in amounts of less than $10,000 was just a coincidence?

re: #70 Dark_Falcon

He trusts the man to defend him against a charge that will put him away for life if he’s convicted, but doesn’t trust the lawyer with knowing about his money? That’s quite foolish.

Question for anyone who knows: If O’Mara had become aware Zimmerman had lied in certifying himself as indigent, would he have been obligated to report it? I’m thinking here of ethics rules forbidding lawyers to aid in a filing they know to be dishonest.

O’Mara came on the case the same day George was arrested, just after his first two lawyers publicly cut ties with him while at the same time announcing to the press their views of his mental state. Their first meeting is just O’Mara showing up to get George’s signature on a petition to have the first judge recuse herself. It isn’t until later calls that Shellie starts voicing a better opinion of the man. I don’t consider it inconceivable that George just didn’t trust O’Mara enough, prior to the hearing, to tell him about how much was in the account.