process in place. african-americans here are satisfied that a process has begun and would do nothing. it s been pretty much across the board that he wouldn t be in any danger but it is an interesting contrast to what was said before. joann reed, thank you so much for your report. thank you. with me now, famed criminal defense attorney mark garragos. thank you so much for being here, and i also respect the legal opinion of howard dershowitz who last night made his opinion of probable cause. would you please watch his reaction to this. this is so thin that it won t make it past a judge on a second-degree murder charge. it s not only thin, it s irresponsible. what you have here is an elected public official who made a campaign speech last night for reelection when she gave her presentation, and overcharged, way overcharged.
this case will not, if the evidence is no stronger than what appears in the probable cause affidavit, this case will result in an acquittal. mark garragos, your thoughts? i don t disagree at all. i stated publicly when i saw the affidavit that this was about as bare bones an affidavit as i ve ever seen, and i would agree with the professor. in fact, i suspect that there has to be more, otherwise i don t know, in the parts i might disagree with, i don t know that it gets to a jury. remember, they have this kind of unusual two-step process in that besides having a probable cause proceeding, they also have what s called an immunity proceeding. and the stand your ground proceeding where it s a determination by the judge as to whether or not to grant immunity. if the judge finds that he was acting, and it s just by a preponderance, a little bit more than the other side in terms of the evidence, they could grant
lawyers. but what we do still know now is that the judge discloses herself. she went ahead and disclosed the potential for the appearance of conflict and now she s leaving it up to the attorney what he wants to do. he could actually file a motion to have her removed and have her replaced with another j. a week from today seems like it will be a significant date in the chronology of this case because that s when o mara will try to have zimmerman released from jail. exactly, michael, and here s the issue. the previous attorneys for george zimmerman had made a big issue of the idea that he s unsafe in this community, particularly people in the african-american community are out to get george, that he wasn t safe. it s a question now why he would want to be released back into this community. where would he go? yeah, and i did ask leaders in the african-american community as well as the mayor of sanford, what did they think about this? and from the police department which said they
now back to hardball. welcome back to hardball. george zimmerman will try tomorrow to get zimmerman out of jail while he awaits the trial for the shooting death of trayvon martin. and she announced that her husband s colleague, a cnn legal analyst, had denied zimmerman s request to represent him last month. joann reed is the managing editor for go.com as well as a legal analyst. she s got the latest. what s going on? the judge in this case, jessica rexseidler, her husband is in a civil trial by the name of mark neejim.