System Failure.

You took a story that was fed to you,
and you ran with it.
And you ran right over him.

Attorney Mark O'Mara indites the media for failing to discern relevant facts earlier, and playing up the racial angle between blacks and Hispanics/whites.

His partner was more blunt, calling it "disgraceful" that charges were brought in the court of law based on emotion and not legal reasoning.
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* In a pre-verdict interview Friday with CNN reporter Martin Savidge, O'Mara summed up the prosecutor's case:

"It was a wonderfully created and crafted public relations campaign by the people who are assisting the Martin family,” O’Mara said. He named Martin family attorney Ben Crump as being responsible for creating this misleading PR campaign and said that he should admit to that.

“Do you think that George Zimmerman would have even been charged had Ben Crump not been pulled into this?” Savidge asked.

“No,” O’Mara replied flatly. “I think that it was a made up story for purposes that had nothing to do with George Zimmerman and that they victimized him.”

O’Mara said that there was a concerted effort to “smear” Zimmerman as a racist and a murderer “when he wasn’t.” He added that the state should have taken the charges to a grand jury, but they decided to hold a press conference and announce the charges instead.

“How much of this was politics,” the CNN reporter asked.

O’Mara did not respond directly, but noted that the more one focuses on the political angle, the more the case “makes sense.”