Actually, he was only a potential juror who was tossed out of the jury pool when defense attorneys discovered some prejudicial FaceBook postings.
But this goofball, Jerry Counelis, had apparently posted a comment that said, “Justice for Trayvon” two weeks before George Zimmerman was arrested for Martin’s murder. Then he lied about it during voir dire.
When Counelis was ousted from the jury pool he came back into the courthouse and tried to get into the jury room. He was yelling that his anonymity had been taken away from him. And this is the kind of nut case who could have gotten onto the jury? Dear Lord God!
Counelis was finally arrested and jailed for trespass. His mug shot will ensure that he has no anonymity. Ever.
Zimmerman was an HOA crime watchman for the Retreat at Twin Lakes Homeowners Association in Sanford, Florida. He says he shot and killed Trayvon Martin after the teenager attacked him. Zimmerman was on a cell phone talking to police when the shooting happened.
This Homeowners Association has already paid Martin’s family more than a million dollars to settle a lawsuit against the HOA. But homeowners there haven’t begun to see the real costs of their gated neighborhood zeal. If Zimmerman is found ‘not guilty’ (as is probable), he’ll have a heck of a lawsuit against his own HOA. They put him at risk. They didn’t support him when he got into trouble while serving his official crime watch duties.
I would not want to be a member of that HOA when the special assessments start arriving.
That’s one HOA that could be going down the drain.
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One of the things that really bothered me about this case was they kept showing pictures of Trayvon at age 12 and making Zimmerman look old–when in fact they were both very young–there is only a 10 year span between them. I don’t know the particulars, but the reaction and attention was anything but fair. I WANT neighborhood watches and people who will volunteer–good luck with that now.