Shellie Zimmerman Mug Shot
IN A CASE that will revolve around credibility, questions continue to mount against the Zimmermans. After George Zimmerman was remanded back into jail for allegedly “lying” to the judge, his wife Shellie Zimmerman has been arrested and charged with perjury.
Of course, it only matters what the jury thinks about the charges, with there a lot of time before this case goes to trail.
At her husband’s bond hearing, Shellie Zimmerman was asked repeatedly about money. Among the questions: How much did the couple collect in donations through George Zimmerman’s website?
“Currently, I do not know,” Shellie Zimmerman replied. [...]
Four days before she testified to having no knowledge of the funds, the affidavit says, Shellie Zimmerman began a series of transfers into her account — totaling $74,000 from April 16 to April 19.
The affidavit says about $47,000 more was transferred from George Zimmerman’s account to his sister’s. Shellie Zimmerman withdrew about $18,000 more in cash, prosecutors say.
Prosecutors say the Zimmermans used a rudimentary “code” to discuss the money in recorded jailhouse phone calls — referring to $100,000, for example, as “$100.” At least two of the calls, the state alleges, were made while Shellie Zimmerman and her husband’s sister were at a local credit union making the transactions.
Zimmerman told his wife to “pay off all the bills” with the money, prosecutors said, including an American Express card and a Sam’s Club card. He also instructed her on how to pay his bail.
According to the affidavit, after her husband was released on bond days after the hearing, she transferred more than $85,000 back into his account. A branch manager at their credit union told prosecutors he knew the couple and saw Shellie Zimmerman talking to her husband on the phone April 16.
According to the Orlando Sentinel, there is some talk that regardless of criticisms about the state’s case against George Zimmerman in the killing of Trayvon Martin, there is a “a pretty strong perjury case” against Shellie Zimmerman.
Mark O’Mara is representing stupid people. The stakes of this trial against George Zimmerman couldn’t be higher, so to risk it all by scuttling your own trustworthiness is tantamount to destroying your own defense.
Any woman willing to lie and perjure herself for a man needs her head examined.
Both of these morons are going to end up in jail. Zimmerman because he couldn’t discern what a threat was because he was too stupid and Shellie because she thought that she could blatantly lie about the money. Is Shellie so stupid as to no realize that transactions are recorded at the bank? The hubris of these people is absolutely astounding. They think they can do anything from murder to perjury and think they can get away with it all. Their attorney has quite a mess on his hands.
Yeah, I feel for Mark O’Mara.
But you never know what a jury will decide. The trial’s also a long way off.
That they didn’t think their “code” would be figured out is truly stupid.
All the Zimmerman defenders have been oddly quiet lately. I wonder why?
I think some are still in the penalty locker Solo.
But only our Missouri Marvel knows for sure.
Yes, too bad. The silence is deafening. We won’t be treated to a discourse on her upbringing.
It is amazingly quiet without the 30 or 40 self congratulatory and totally nauseating attempts at explaining how racist bilge isn’t racist bilge at all, it’s just they way they are donchaknow.
I feel for Mr. O’Mara as well. His job got a lot harder. Perjury is a very hard thing to prove, thus the prosecutor must have some big guns trained on Shellie Zimmerman. And with George possibly aiding and abetting the perjury, his believability took some very serious hits below the water line.
I can see why Zimmerman cooked up this cockamamie get-out-of-jail-free plan. I can also see why he failed to think it through. What I don’t get is why Shellie Zimmerman defaulted to the worst kind of stand-by-your-man thinking.
Hello?! Are their any adults in the room? Any one? Any one at all?
Sweet Baby Jesus On A Pogo Stick, add both of their IQs together and you still don’t reach room temperature!
Oh, Dear…Your comment sparked in me the shades of a new country western tune by Tanya-Shawnia-Tucker-Twain: “Stand-By Your Man, Standing His Ground!”
I can just visualize it going platinum in no time in redneck-bigot land.
I actually feel quite a bit of empathy for Ms. Zimmerman. As anyone who comes here with any regularity knows I was not shy about advocating the arrest and prosecution of her pathetic excuse for a husband.
And I am in NO way saying she shouldn’t pay the price the laws demand for her actions trying to help her loser/husband hide the money.
But I understand.
This was the man she loved enough to marry, in BIG trouble. And once the first pebbles got kicked over the cliff the judicial landslide rushing towards him…AND her must have appeared pretty overwhelming.
Was it stupid? Yeah. Was it illegal, YEAH! But was it understandable? Yes.
At another time in my life a woman doing something like this…or even worse, MUCH worse to protect her man, even if illegal would have been an admirable thing.
I only do emotions when I am watching sports, so I can only respond with analytical thinking here. I will posit the State has zero interest in actually taking this perjury assertion to trial. I will further posit the State doesn’t even want to take Zimmerman himself to trial. 90% of Corey’s convictions are comprised of plea deals and by cooking up this pressure on the wife, hopes to wear down Zimmerman’s resolve to resist pleading out to involuntary manslaughter.
As most criminal charges do end in a plea, I can not rule that possibility out. But thinking cap on CO, this is no longer just about the facts of the case. The state might want a plea, but the politics of this particular case make a plea bargen a very dicy proposition.
Plus I do wonder what other rakes Zimmerman will step on before this goes to trial. You have to admit this last one was a doozy.
I understand your point, but the “politics” of it will depend a lot on how much pressure Crump, Sharpton and Trayvon-sympathetic media bring to bear. They certainly have quieted down since the original bond hearing. If this contingent does not reignite the media swarm at the time of the next bond hearing, the State people may start going back to doing business as usual with this case.
I also agree that Zimmerman suffered from some missteps of his own and his former unhelpful attorneys, but at this point, O’Mara should have had enough time to get in control of the defense agenda and control any further missteps….assuming he brings an A game to the situation.
Obviously, the wife is going to garner a bunch more sympathy than Zimmerman, so the State can’t overplay their hand even though she dealt them some extra cards.
I’ll see your Involuntary manslaughter and raise you VOLUNTARY Manslaughter with jail time.