If this is something Zimmerman’s defense is truly preparing, the grand jury hearing scheduled for April 10 promises to be full of sensationalized drama. Good gracious does this sound like something from a Law & Order episode.
Hal Uhrig, a new member of Zimmerman’s defense team, who’s also a lawyer and former Gainesville, Florida, police officer, cited in an interview with CBS This Morning that the type of brain damage that can seriously injure or kill an infant called Shaken Baby Syndrome may be applied to the Zimmerman case.
“We’re familiar with the Shaken Baby Syndrome. You shake a baby, the brain shakes around inside the skull. You can die when someone’s pounding your head into the ground,” said Uhrig.
Reuters reports that apart from saying his client suffered a broken nose, Uhrig did not elaborate on the extent of any injuries Zimmerman actually suffered. But characteristic injuries associated with SBS, as Shaken Baby Syndrome is known, include bleeding in the brain. There are often no visible external signs such injuries have occurred. Aha! Well, now that makes sense in terms of the Zimmerman defense which heretofore has been full of odd commentary, strange suppositions, and what sounds like scripted dialogue coming from his attorneys, friends, and family. They’d love to claim a phantom reason for why Zimmerman was in grave danger (but not enough to garner a ride to the hospital post-shooting), so naturally “shaken baby syndrome” fits the bill.
Urgh. Okay. This sounds ridiculous. Even mentioning the over 200 pound Zimmerman who was armed with a gun in the same context of being a “shaken baby” sounds absurd. This in some way is meant to conjure, what, a purely defenseless, vulnerable being (but larger male who outweighed Martin by roughly 50 pounds or more) who was on the cusp of certain death? Please, give us a break.
Anyway, the brilliant lawyer-cop, Uhrig, goes on to claim that Zimmerman suffered a broken nose in what has to be the most poorly worded commentary ever.
“He didn’t commit any crime,” Uhrig said on CBS. “He was attacked, broke his nose, hit his head into the ground and he defended himself. That’s not against the law.”
Hmmm, not “suffered a broken nose by Trayvon Martin, or had his head driven into the ground by Martin?” I know, I know, but doesn’t it sound like Zimmerman was somehow culpable in his own supposed injuries just by the wording? The lawyer has no problem going with the Shaken Baby Syndrome defense but pulls back from forcefully claiming that Martin caused these copious injuries? Interesting.
