O'Mara answer to a question about whether it was a fair fight. He needs to apologize to every public defender in the state for his comment that the state was treating the defense like brand new public defenders. They outfunded us, they made it extraordinarily difficult with discovery.
Question: What was the best moment: When the jury said not guilty.
What about future civil proceedings: We will seek and we will get immunity in any future civil proceeding.
Answer to question about race: If George Zimmerman were black, he would never have been charged with a crime in this case.
This became a focus for a civil rights event, and GZ was used to create a civil rights violation. Those people who decided to make him the scapegoat would not have done so had he been black. And had they done even a little background research, they would have seen he did not deserve it.
I don't think the press attends many trials. They seem to think the way Judge Nelson treated Don West was an aberration. Defense lawyers (and sometimes prosecutors) get that treatment all the time. We're used to it. It's our job to keep fighting and not fold in the face of it. And after the judge rules against us, it's our job to insist we get to make a record of our objection to the ruling. If there's no objection after the ruling, the court of appeals may decide not to even consider the argument against the ruling, or else use the "harmless error" standing.