While Cordell Jude trial is delayed again, more evidence that some people want it both ways

The latest “update” on the Cordell Jude trial for the murder of Daniel Adkins, according to information director Jerry Cobb: 

The original trial date was vacated and reset to October 9 because

1) the court needed more time to rule on the State's Notice of Intent to Use Defendant's Other Crimes, Wrong or Acts Pursuant to Rule 404(b) and

 

2) the defense counsel was granted a motion to continue based on having a trial conflict.

One may be forgiven for a feeling of déjà vu, let alone cynicism, in this case. It goes beyond the excessively drawn-out process for justice of Adkins. While the case has largely been treated with indifference by the mainstream media (and by extension, the public), this was of course not the case in regard to George Zimmerman, where the process was expedited with a charge that exceeded the knowable facts. Many whites—especially in the media—have chosen to play both sides of the fence. This was best attested by the following comments by Joe Klein, a columnist for TIME. After the Zimmerman verdict, he wrote:

In 2013 the jury may still be almost all white, but the shooter is Hispanic--and the evidence is cloudy. If I were a member of that jury, operating in the context of Florida's barbaric gun laws, I might have had to vote to acquit. George Zimmerman clearly was guilty of overzealous racial profiling, but there was no definitive evidence of how the scuffle began. It was not beyond a reasonable doubt that Zimmerman was overacting in self-defense. Martin's death is an outrage, but it is not Emmett Till or Medgar Evers.

One can observe the various mendacious machinations in this statement. It is a “barbaric” law that allows a person to defend oneself while being beaten. A person seen acting suspicious (check out that 7-Eleven video again) cannot be “followed” by the neighborhood watch captain if he is black. Yet Klein admits that Trayvon Martin was not the civil rights saint that Till and Evers were, and Klein leaves himself and other whites an “out” by implying that they too would want the benefit of self-defense. But Zimmerman is still to be condemned for being “overzealous” at “racial-profiling,” despite the fact that the latter was never at issue at trial; again, white folks want that “out” too. 

In a yet another “postscript” on the case, it seems that Zimmerman was recently in the news again; this time the loving couple of those jailhouse transcripts is no more, as his wife has filed for divorce and gone into vindictive-ex mode on CNN and other media outlets. This apparently occurred after she was convicted of perjury in regard to the bail hearing, which I thought was just more piling-on anyways, due to the inflated charge against Zimmerman not justified by the facts. His wife received no jail time, but was sentenced to 100 days community service; she obviously found being forced to work off some of her excess weight sympathy-worthy, and it seems that her principle complaint—besides blaming Zimmerman for her predicament—is that “George only cares about George.” After all he went through (and probably will for the rest of his life), now it was her turn for pity me, and Zimmerman seemed to be preoccupied about what he was going to do.The cynic, of course, will note that it is in his soon-to-be ex-wife's interest to distance herself from him by attacking him in the media.

Meanwhile, Zimmerman attorney Mark O’Mara has provided this advice to his former client: “Pay me,” which given the fact that the eminently winnable case gave O’Mara a national platform and even a part-time job on CNN, would seem to be rather “greedy” on his part.