In his opening presentation, one of the prosecutors in the George Zimmerman trial repeated Zimmerman's obscenity laced description of Trayvon Martin to a non-emergency police dispatcher - “Fucking punks. These assholes, they always get away.” He intended to, and did shock the all-woman jury with those obscenities.
In his presentation, one of Zimmerman's lawyers countered with the following joke:
“Knock-knock ….. Who's there? ….. George Zimmerman ….. George Zimmerman, who? ….. Alright good, you're on the jury.”
The reaction to the joke? Dead silence.
What was that attorney thinking? Zimmerman already has enough problems with an all-woman jury that is not going to hear about Trayvon's prior thuggery and pot smoking, but will be shown pictures of an angelic-looking teenager. The lawyer's apology to the jury later during his opening presentation can't undo the damage that lame joke may have cost his client.
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Lawyers are just as capable of egregious stupidity as anybody else.
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