Angela Corey, by all accounts, is no Atticus Finch. She is “one hell of a trial lawyer,” says a Florida defense attorney who has known her for three decades — but the woman who has risen to national prominence as the “tough as nails” state attorney who prosecuted George Zimmerman is known for scorching the earth. And some of her prosecutorial conduct has been, well, troubling at best.
Corey, a Jacksonville native, took a degree in marketing from Florida State University before pursuing her J.D. at the University of Florida. She became a Florida prosecutor in 1981 and tried everything from homicides to juvenile cases in the ensuing 26 years. In 2008, Corey was elected state attorney for Florida’s Fourth Judicial Circuit, taking over from Harry Shorstein — the five-term state attorney who had fired her from his office a year earlier, citing “long-term issues” regarding her supervisory performance.
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4 comments:
If what the article alleges is true about her side stepping the grand jury and omitting evidence from the affidavit it is clear she knew she had no case and was prosecuting at the direction of someone higher or hoping for a political favor. Her conduct is more reprehensible than the prosecutor who filed charges against the Duke players and if I remember correctly he was punished for his unethical actions.
Oh, let the smear campaign begin.
#1 anyone who rises to a top position has inevitably pissed some folks off.
#2 a boy lay dead under questionable circumstances. It was definetly worth pursuing. Man got his day in court and is now walking free. Case closed. I guarantee you would have never seen any criticism about the woman's record had it not been for this case.
Allow me to continue, 736.
#3 if she had followed common ethics rules, allowed all the evidence to be on the table from Day one (in color), George Zimmerman would never have needed a "Day in court".
7:36- "a smear campaign?" Don't be silly.
FYI-There has been, way before anyone had ever heard of Trayvon Martin, much criticism of this "woman's record" with an overwhelming majority of it coming from the African American community with some coming from the legal community.
This prosecution was nothing more than an attempt by her to redeem herself within the African American communities.
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