http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/28/george-zimmerman-wife-plea-deal-perjury
The wife of George Zimmerman, the neighbourhood watch leader acquitted last month of murdering the unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in a confrontation at a Florida housing estate, struck a plea deal Wednesday on a perjury charge that will keep her out of jail.
Shellie Zimmerman, 26, appeared before a judge in Sanford to admit lying about donations to her husband's defence fund at a bail hearing last year. She was sentenced to 12 months' probation."I was aware that what I was saying was not true, and chose to take a path that I now regret with all my heart," Zimmerman wrote in a letter of apology to the court."By lying under oath I let my God down, I let your honour and the court down, I let my family and friends down and, most of all, I let myself down," she added in the letter addressed to Judge Kenneth Lester, who was overseeing George Zimmerman's murder case at the time of the June 2012 hearing.Shellie Zimmerman, in a dark suit, refused to talk to reporters after Wednesday's 10-minute hearing, at which she spoke only briefly to reply "Yes ma'am" when Judge Marlene Alva asked her if she wanted to plead guilty to a charge of perjury not in official proceedings.
georgie boy out there livin' la vida loca and she's locked down. she didn't let anyone down, she tried to take them to the cleaners. probably to use the money for herself cashing in early on her husbands new fame that has the bucks pouring in.
Her attorney, Kelly Sims, told Alva that Zimmerman "was standing by her man, as Tammy Wynette said," when she lied to the court. She could have faced a five-year sentence for a felony perjury conviction, but she pleaded guilty to a misdemeanour offence in the deal brokered with state prosecutors in return for probation and 100 hours community service.Zimmerman told Lester last year that the couple was virtually penniless, despite them having control of more than $150,000 in public donations raised online since her husband's arrest for the February 26 shooting of Martin, 17.
premeditated lying should carry a heavier sentence motivation greed sin and a felony, tends to expose more of that family's nefarious agenda. murder a Black teen self defense get the the racist to acquit you and laugh all the way to the bank, because those Americans in effect were rewarding him for his misdeed, now he's making them all look foolish.
