George Zimmerman suing parents of Trayvon Martin among others

[Rev. Rye]

So it's not enough that he got away with killing that kid... he also wants $100M.

Bold move. Welcome to America.

And, best case scenario for him, even if he wins, does he seriously think the Martin family even has $100 million to give?

Apparently, the issue at hand is that, to quote a CNN article on the lawsuit,

civil rights attorney Ben Crump helped to swap out a reluctant witness, Brittany Diamond Eugene, for her half-sister, Rachel Jeantel, and helped prepare her to deliver a script intended to land Zimmerman in prison for the 17-year-old's killing on February 26, 2012. Crump began representing Trayvon's parents starting February 28, 2012, the lawsuit says.

The suit accuses Trayvon's parents, prosecutors and state authorities of going along with the alleged ruse, and "are alleged to either have known about or should have known about the witness fraud, obstructed justice, or lied repeatedly under oath in order to cover up their knowledge of the witness fraud," a news release from Klayman said.

Klayman, who founded the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, has filed several lawsuits in the past, including a "birther" lawsuit that falsely claimed former President Barack Obama couldn't be president because he wasn't a natural-born citizen.

According to Zimmerman's lawsuit, Jeantel posed as Trayvon's girlfriend when it was Eugene who was dating Trayvon and on the phone with him during the encounter with Zimmerman, a former neighborhood watch captain.

Jeantel then delivered bogus testimony on the stand at Zimmerman's trial, the lawsuit alleges. The alleged conspirators went along with the plot, despite Jeantel being two years older, 5 inches taller and about 120 pounds heavier than Eugene, the lawsuit says.

The plan was made final in a 3-minute phone call between Crump and Eugene on March 31, 2012, the lawsuit says.

I doubt it's legitimate, but honestly, if this is accepted and this somehow leads to a mistrial, this could be a good chance for the DAs to actually charge him properly. I strongly suspect that the biggest reason the jury acquitted Zimmerman is because they overcharged him. There's a lower standard of proof for manslaughter (intentionally committing an act or acts that caused the death of another) than second degree murder (a killing carried out with hatred, ill will or spite, but is not premeditated), and due to the cops' failure to investigate it properly in a timely manner, the crime scene was compromised, and the defense was able to control (at least to a degree) the narrative that he could have been defending himself.