LafayetteLady
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Joined: 5/2/2007 From: Northern New Jersey Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: LafayetteLady With the outrage over this case, it isn't likely to be a 50/50 toss up at all. After Zimmerman's criminal trial, when the Martins sue him personally, it will be a waste of time. He won't have any money (aka Casey Anthony). If he is found guilty (good chance), then he won't have any money or chance to make any, since he can't profit from his crime. If he is not sitting in a jail cell, I'm sure the Martins will file their civil complaint quickly and his irrevocable trust will be useless since he will obviously have set it up specifically to avoid paying on a civil suit. I'm assuming your basing your view on New Jersey versus Florida. Even in Seminole County the Travon Martin shooting is mostly forgotten about. I don't know how people do things in your parts but using a gun lawfully in self-defense is allowed in Florida. I realize in New Jersey that's highly alien given your laws and culture. I've randomly polled folks and while most thing Zimmerman was an idiot, they can't say beyond a reasonable doubt that he committed murder, intended to commit murder, or unjustly killed Travon Martin. Most think Zimmerman picked a fight he couldn't win and when things went from fisticuffs to possible murder based on the facts available (witnesses and forensics, not hyperbole), many thing Zimmerman used the firearm lawfully to defend himself. Again get two white men over the age of forty, on top of any white women, hispanic males, hispanic women, you've got a solid go at reasonable doubt and acquittal. It's innocent till proven guilty. Not an arrest automatically makes you guilty. To address the trust. If the irrevocable trust is created by someone other than zimmerman, and zimmerman directs any payments to be made to the trust in exchange for his appearances and so forth, so long as the trust is properly setup as a support trust with proper spendthrift clause, and someone other than zimmerman is the beneficiary (like his wife), an attorney would have a real hard time attaching the corpus of the trust for collection. At best they might garnish a percentage of each disbursement from the trust, and that would be a small percentage. But again they'd have to win a civil suit, and attorneys like to take cases they are likely to get paid on. It's not just about winning, it's about getting paid and possible payment from Zimmerman isn't real attractive. Actually, having lived in both places, and been in the legal field for over twenty years, I am familiar with both places. What is it you do again? You own a carpet cleaning business, don't you?
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