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Chris Cusmano, who resigned as assistant state attorney last year to protest prosecutor misconduct, leaves race.
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Chris Cusmano, who resigned as assistant state attorney last year to protest prosecutor misconduct, leaves race.
The special prosecutor investigating the trayvon martin case in florida has pulled the plug on a planned grand jury hearing. this means prosecutor angela corey is taking full responsibility for deciding whether or not to charge george zimmerman, the man who shot trayvon martin. the grand jury has been scheduled to convene tomorrow by the former attorney in charge of the case, norman wolfinger. he recused himself last month and spoke about outrage over the conflict. corey's decision to skip the grand jury hearing indicating zimmerman will not be charged with first-degree murder since florida la...
The specific prosecutor, including a piece in the "miami herald" that talked about this, we had the feeling that there would not be a grand jury in this case. what people need to understand sprks the april 10th grand jury date was a product of the previous prosecutor. when norman wolfinger recused himself from the case, technically everything did he went away and that included the april 10th date that he set for the grand jury. fact is it was never her deadline. >> it was never her deadline and she was not bound by it. >> by releasing this official statement, this is why this is flaring up. ...
Running its own investigation. that's the florida department of law enforcement working for the special prosecutor trying to determine what happened on that rainy night more than a month ago. field agents from the fbi spent much of monday in the gated community where trayvon was shot. they're here as part of a civil rights investigation to determine if the 17-year-old was targeted and killed by george zimmerman because he was black. >> the issue here is did george zimmerman act in self-defense? that's what this case is about. it's not about whether he was a racist. this was not a case of racia...
Trayvon martin. by now it's this life and death struggle between the two of them as if he was being battered by trayvon martin. i think by telling that story they set themselves up because this video does not show that. there is no blood on him. this was a close range supposed gun shot but there is no blood on his clothing. his nose doesn't look broken or pleading so it's a problem. >> what about this report about the police, the sanford police chief being on the scene the night of trayvon martin's death. tell us more. >> see, that is also unusual. and this was the reporting this week that i w...